Cocoliche

cocoliche English Alternative forms en cocoliche Etymology en es cocoliche, en 1 Cocoliche, a fictional comedic character inspired by the broken Spanish of Calabrian immigrant Antonio Cuccolicchio during a stage improvisation. Pronunciation en Proper noun A pidgin or language continuum formed from Italian and Spanish, spoken in parts of the River Plate region of South America between the late nineteenth century and the 1970s. en 1995 Martin Maiden A Linguistic History of Italian Longman 2003 269 Indeed, cocoliche might in some respects be seen as another example of dialectal influence upon Italian – except that in this case the ‘dialect’ is another Romance ‘language’, and not an Italo-Romance variety. en Argentina Italian Extinct languages Spanish