Official language in the Argentine Republic.

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- Lunfardo

A slang of Buenos Aires City.

United Kingdom from 18th century.

West Germanic language

United States since mid 20th century.

Lingua Franca.

European Union and many Commonwealth countries.

Ability to speak two languages.

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Children in regions where most adults speak two languages.

A second language also is acquired in school.

Word borrowed from English into another language.

Product of poor translations created by the absence of an appropiate word.

Borrowing Languages in contact habitually

tend to incorporate lexical borrowings from the most influential one to the other.

Incorporated borrowing The adoption of adopted foreign word or expression, in a Spanish language dictionary.

Sporadic borrowingWhen a word or expression has not been incorporated into any Spanish dictionary of general language Calque Words or expressions of foreign

origin that have been translated literally with a possible lack of sense in the target language, as the translated word is not used with the same sense value and in the same contexts.Periphrasis

A rethorical device that substitutes one term by a number of words, which defines and paraphrases it.

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