Italo-Paulista

The Italo-Paulista (Íntalo-baolista), also known as Paulistalian, is a language that blends Italian dialects with the Caipira dialect. It was widely spoken by Italian immigrants and their descendants until the early 1960s in São Paulo State, especially in the Greater São Paulo region. Italo-Paulista or Paulistalian was commonly spoken on the streets of São Paulo.

In 1911, the poet Oswald de Andrade, of Portuguese descent, under the Italian pseudonym "Annibale Scipione," created the magazine Cartas D’Abax’O Pigues, using language as a means of publication. Consequently, in 1915, the Brazilian magazine O Queixoso used the expression "língua do Abaixo Piques" ("Abaixo Piques language") to promote the Italo-Paulista publication La Divina Increnca by Juó Bananère.