cocoliche

1. Alternative letter-case form of Cocoliche.

alternative cocoliche

1. 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.

   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.

   1995, Martin Maiden, A Linguistic History of Italian, Longman, published 2003, page 269