Barallete is a largely vanished
argot
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which used to be employed by the traditional knife-sharpeners and
umbrella
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-repairers (''afiadores e paragüeiros'') of the
Galician province of
Ourense
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, in
Spain
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.
It was based on the
Galician language
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as spoken in Ourense, but its users substituted everyday words with invented ones of no linguistic connection, making it impossible for other people to understand it.
Example
An example of Barallete is:
:''Habia que chusar anque oretee ou axa barruxo, porque facía falta zurro, que Sanqueico nono da de balde.''
:"We had to work even if it rained or even if there was mud, because money was needed, and God does not provide it free".
The same sentence in standard Galician:
:''Había que traballar aín
a ue chova ou haxa barro, porque facía falta diñeiro, que Deus non o dá de balde.''
Barallete is said to have arisen in the twelfth century, and many words and phrases from this argot have been published in various recent works of fiction and non-fiction.For example: "Rayos", Miqui Otero,2016
See also
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Bron
Bron () is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, eastern France.
Geography
Bron lies east-southeast of central Lyon. It is the sixth-largest suburb of the city of Lyon, and is adjacent to its east side.
Climat ...
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Cant
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Gacería
Gacería, also known as briquería or briquero, is a linguistic variant whose core has its origins between the 12th and 13th centuries, it was especially rooted during the 19th and 20th centuries as cant and slang within the professional world o ...
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