Oscar Conde
Lunfardo: un estudio sobre el habla popular de los argentinos.
Buenos Aires: Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, 2011. First edition. 9789870417620  557 pages.
Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.25" x 9.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright.
Study of  dialect originated and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the lower classes in Buenos Aires and which is to be found today in the informal language of Argentina and Uruguay. Its vocabulary is largely made up of words that cannot be found in standard dictionaries of the Spanish language.