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This slang vocabulary associated with Buenos Aires appears frequently in tango lyrics.

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Your new ahaLunfardo

Immigrant languages contributed words. Source: Lunfardo ↗

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  2. 06Buenos Aires faces this broad estuary shared with Uruguay.RECALL
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