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Caló (Spanish:; Catalan:; Galician:; Portuguese:) is a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani ethnic groups. It is a mixed language (referred to as a Para-Romani language in Romani linguistics) based on Romance grammar, with an adstratum of Romani lexical items, [2] through language shift by the Romani community.
This is a list of Spanish words of various origins. It includes words from Australian Aboriginal languages, Balti, Berber, Caló, Czech, Dravidian languages, Egyptian ...
The 2003 International Encyclopedia of Linguistics from Oxford University Press, 2015 Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages[(here they cite Lewis et al. 2014 as their source) and the 2005 Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics all say only 10,000 speakers in Brazil. I think these sources are reasonably reliable and the Lewis source ...
According to Chicano artist and writer José Antonio Burciaga: . Caló originally defined the Spanish gypsy dialect. But Chicano Caló is the combination of a few basic influences: Hispanicized English; Anglicized Spanish; and the use of archaic 15th-century Spanish words such as truje for traje (brought, past tense of verb 'to bring'), or haiga, for haya (from haber, to have).
The article Calo (Chicano slang) is not a duplicate of Caló (Chicano) * DO NOT REDIRECT * There are reasons for the existence of these two separate articles, i.e., primarily the difference on the spelling of the word "Calo" vs "Caló"; and the former's desire to maintain a list of Chicano slang / Calo words and expressions while the later desires to "not" maintain such a list.
Early attestations of the name in Basque include Errama-itçéla, Erroumancel, [8] [12] later errumanzel and erremaitzela. [13] The initial e-is the Basque prosthetic vowel, [8] which was added at a time that no Basque word was allowed to begin with an r-. The final -a is the absolutive case suffix, which is used when citing a name.
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