Caló or Spanish Romani is a language spoken by the Gitanos or Zincarli living in Spain and elsewhere: Caló blends native Romany vocabulary with Spanish grammar(1). There is a growing awareness and appreciation for Caló: "...until the recent work by Luisa Rojo, in the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, not even the linguistics community recognized the significance and problems of Caló and its world.(2)" Its world includes songs, poetry, and Flamenco(3). According to the Ethnologue, Caló is related to another nomadic group's language, Quinqui. Romany (or Romani) relates to: The Roma: a people sometimes called (to them, pejoratively) Gypsies. ... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... Flamenco is a song, music and dance style which is strongly influenced by the Gitanos, but which has its deeper roots in Moorish musical traditions. ... The Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with native language biblical texts. ... Quinqui is an argot with roots in Caló and German. ...

Reference

1. Ethnologue  (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RMR)

2. The Responsibility of Linguist and the Basque Case (http://ibs.lgu.ac.uk/forum/luri.htm)

3. Caló  (http://hometown.aol.com/nakerite/zincarli.html) 4. [1] (http://www.geocities.com/webromany/notas_gramaticales/dos_ejemplos/the_romany_language_in_spain.html)

See also

Germanía This is another Spanish jargon. Germanía or jerigonza is the term used in Spanish to refer to the argot used by criminals or in jails. ...