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Germanía or jerigonza is the term used in Spanish to refer to the argot used by criminals or in jails. Its purpose is to keep outsiders out of the conversation. This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...
Argot is primarily slang used by various groups, including but not limited to thieves and other criminals, to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. ...
Common stereotype of a criminal A crime in a broad sense is an act that violates a political or moral law. ...
A prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties. ...
We already have some documentation in picaresque works from the Spanish Golden Century. Some writers used it in poetry for comical effect. The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresco, from pícaro, for rogue or rascal) is a popular style of novel that originated in Spain and flourished in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and has continued to influence modern literature. ...
The siglo de oro (a Spanish-language phrase meaning golden century) was to the great age of Spanish wealth and power, roughly from the early-to-mid-16th century to the early-to-mid-17th century. ...
Since the arrival of Roma people and their frequent imprisonment, it incorporated lots of vocabulary from Romany language and its descendant, the Gipsy jargon caló. As time passed, several words entered popular use and even standard Spanish, losing their occultation value. It survives today in the cheli jargon. The Roma people (pronounced rahma, singular Rom, sometimes Rroma, and Rrom) along with the closely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies in English, and as Tsigany in most of Europe. ...
Romany (or Romani) is the language of the Roma and Sinti, travelling peoples often referred to in English as gypsies and in the East and Central Europe known as tsigane. ...
A cheli is a native of the traditional working class and poor districts of Madrid, Spain, such as Lavapies and Atocha in the southern part of the old city. ...
War of the Germanías
The term germanía ("brotherhood" in Catalan, compare with Galician irmandiño) originated from the name of certain communities in the Valencian Country, Spain, which made themselves notorious by having rebelled against the local nobility during the sixteenth century. Subsequently, the term referred to the argot used by these communities and, eventually, it referred to improper argot. Capital Valencia Official languages Valencian (Catalan) and Spanish (Castilian) Area – total – % of Spain Ranked 8th 23 255 km² 4,6% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 4th 4 326 708 10,3% 186,05/km² Demonym – English – Valencian – Spanish Valencian valencià/valenciana valenciano/valenciana Statute of Autonomy July 10...
The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (Spanish and Galician: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. ...
The Lords and Barons prove their Nobility by hanging their Banners and exposing their Coats-of-arms at the Windows of the Lodge of the Heralds. ...
(15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...
Other jargons based on Spanish language Caló, Lunfardo, Tarish Lunfardo was a colorful, slangy argot of the Spanish language which developed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires. ...
Tarish may refer to: An Anglicised form of the Biblical Tarshish(1). ...
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