Barallete was the name of an argot employed by the peripatetic knife-sharpeners and umbrella holders (afiladores y paraguerios) of the Galician city of Ourense. It was based on the Galician language 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 (for example, xilento was the Barellete word for "hunger"). Argot is primarily slang used by various groups, including but not limited to thieves and other criminals, to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. ... There are two well-known places called Galicia: Galicia (Spain) in Western Europe, an Atlantic Ocean region. ... Ourense (Galician: Ourense; Spanish: Orense) is a town in northwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Ourense in Galicia. ... Galician (Galician: Galego, Spanish: Gallego) is a language variety of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia (in the Galician language, Galicia; sometimes the unofficial nationalist spelling Galiza is used), an autonomous community with the constitutional status of historic nationality and located in northwestern Spain, and in areas in...
An example of Barallete, cited here[1], 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").
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.[2]
Barallete is the name of an argot employed by the traditional knife-sharpeners and umbrella holders (afiadores e paragüeiros) of the Galician province of Ourense.
It was based on the Galician language 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 (for example, xilento was the Barellete word for "hunger").
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.
O "barallete" aparece impregnado desa necesidade e fantasía que fixo posible ser aprendido e eproducido por quen trataron de supera-los problemas de toda índole,relacionados cuns oficios e modalidade de existencia peculiares propias dos variados grupos da ambulancia clásica ourensán: Afiadores ambulantes, paragüeiros, capadores, prateiros, cerralleiros, músicos, mozos de carga, churreiros, xeladeiros,segadores e outros protagonistasda ambulancia
Os novos afiadores solitarios trocan hoxe a vella protección que lles proporcionaba o “barallete”, á que varios deles calificaron de “unha curiosa fala que agora xa non se leva”, por uns comentarios xenéricos, unhas respostas evasivas, ou ben un mutismo prudente, sobre todo aquelo relacionado coa súa vella actividade profesional.
Pero o “barallete” mantívose sempre moi lonxe de constituir esa “curiosa linguaxe” sen trascendencia, que varios afiadores lle atribúen na actualidade.
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