The long agony of Hispanoromani. The remains of Caló in the speech of Spanish Gitanos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12757262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan F Gamella (0000-0002-2822-962X, Universidad de Granada, corresponding author), Cayetano Fernández Romero (0000-0002-6547-8270, Universidad de Granada), Ignasi-Xavier Adiego (0000-0002-6223-5898, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-93 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Romani Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1528-0748 • E-ISSN: 1757-2274 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/rs.2015.3 |
| OpenAlex | W560030428 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
Caló (also known as Romanó) is the mixed speech that Spanish Gitanos developed by combining a Romani lexicon with Spanish morphosyntax (Catalan or Basque in the regional varieties). For two centuries, Caló has been portrayed as being in a terminal state, but there is a lack of data on the knowledge and use of Caló by Gitano speakers. To begin filling this void, we developed a specific questionnaire that includes 355 key Caló words with their Spanish translations, and we applied it to an intentional sample of 68 Gitanos and Gitanas in Andalusia. Our informants recognised 129 words on average, a knowledge greater but also more varied than expected. Among the younger generations, however, few remembered more than 80 words. Caló is not learned by children as a mother tongue, nor considered a complete language. In this article we offer a model of levels of knowledge of the Caló lexicon by Gitano speakers that can be tested in other regions. We also advance a tentative proposal of three main social environments in which Caló is learned, and the social and cultural relations that pre-dominate in each of them. Additionally, we list the words that are known by a majority of speakers and the semantic fields to which they belong, and provide some examples of the mixed discourses the informants produced when prompted with the terms from the questionnaire
Catalan · First language · Lexicon · Linguistics · Sociology · History · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Philosophy · Psychology · Romani and Gypsy Studies · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
Romani
La agonía de una lengua. Lo que queda del caló en el habla de los gitanos. Parte I. Métodos, fuentes y resultados generales
La agonía de una lengua. Lo que queda del caló en el habla de los gitanos. Parte II. Un modelo de niveles de competencia y formas de aprendizaje. Voces y campos semánticos más conocidos
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |