argot

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argot

Summary

argot is a linguistic term[1]. argot draws 411 Wikipedia views per month (linguistic_term category, ranking #3 of 25).[2]

Key Facts

  • argot's instance of is recorded as linguistic term[3].
  • argot's GND ID is recorded as 4136494-6[4].
  • argot's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85051857[5].
  • argot's subclass of is recorded as cant[6].
  • argot's subclass of is recorded as constructed language[7].
  • argot's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00564127[8].
  • argot's has use is recorded as obscurantism[9].
  • argot's has use is recorded as secrecy[10].
  • argot's Commons category is recorded as Slang[11].
  • argot's said to be the same as is recorded as cant[12].
  • argot's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 51025[13].
  • argot's has part is recorded as argotism[14].
  • argot's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0nd6[15].
  • argot's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph138994[16].
  • argot's topic's main category is recorded as Q30500381[17].
  • argot's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0080403[18].
  • argot's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[19].
  • argot's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[20].
  • argot's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • argot's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[22].
  • argot's partially coincident with is recorded as jargon[23].
  • argot's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/argot[24].
  • argot's different from is recorded as slang[25].
  • argot's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1827497[26].
  • argot's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as argot[27].

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Designation and Status

argot's instance of is recorded as linguistic term[3].

Why It Matters

argot draws 411 Wikipedia views per month (linguistic_term category, ranking #3 of 25).[2] argot has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] argot is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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