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It seems so rare, like Catalan in Sardinia. I have read that there is an Italian/Spanish dialect called Lunfardo spoken in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. I have also heard of Portuñol which Wikipedia states is used in parts of Uruguay and Brazil. Working for years in Union City, which at the time was a Cuban community with a Brazilian immigrant population, I have had the exhausting but fun task of speaking with people who have used what I believe to be Portuñol as a lingua franca. As Anglo with no working knowledge of Portuguese, this was an added layer of complication for me. I wouldn't be surprised if this pidgin language is also spoken in border towns in Argentina and Brazil.