Caló

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Caló is a mixed Iberian Romani sociolect that blends Romani vocabulary with Spanish (and sometimes Portuguese) grammar, traditionally spoken by the Romani communities of the Iberian Peninsula.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Caló canonical 3
Iberian Caló 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iberian Romani lect
mixed language
sociolect
ethnicAssociation Iberian Romani
linked to: Romani

Portuguese Roma
Spanish Roma
hasAlternativeName Gitano language
Iberian Caló
linked to: Caló

Spanish Caló
hasDialect Andalusian Caló
Catalan Caló
Portuguese Caló
hasSubstrate Romani language
hasSuperstrate Portuguese language
Spanish language
linked to: Spanish
historicalOrigin contact between Romani speakers and Iberian Romance speakers
ISOStatus not assigned distinct ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Romani
linked to: Romani language
languageType para-Romani language
lexicalInfluenceOn Andalusian Spanish
Lunfardo
Spanish slang
region Andalusia
Castile
Catalonia
Extremadura
relatedTo Angloromani
Para-Romani varieties
Romani language
Scandoromani
script Latin script
sociolinguisticStatus heritage language
minority language
threatened language
spokenIn Iberian Peninsula
Portugal
Spain
typologicalFeature Portuguese-based grammar
Romani-derived lexicon
Spanish-based grammar
usedAs in-group code
marker of ethnic identity
usedBy Gitanos
Romani people in Portugal
Romani people in Spain

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kalé usesLanguage Caló
Gitanos languageUsed Caló
Caló hasAlternativeName Iberian Caló
linked to: Caló