The language developed in the 1970s in the neighborhood of Lambrate in Milan,[1] It was made famous by Guido Nicheli and Diego Abatantuono, in the 1983 film Il ras del quartiere.
In spite of insufficient education and non-standard use of the language, Riocontra speakers have produced a rich lexical repertoire.
The table below summarizes and gives examples of this formation (the cell is left blank when the change does not apply to that term).
The exception is the word merda, which although it can become darme, becomes damer or rdame Some syntactic gemination also happens: It should also be noted that, with the inversion, the plural is lost.
The riocontra then gradually spread throughout Italy with the advent of trap music,[2] as the language of the youth groups.