REPORT ON ROMANI LANGUAGE - Romaninet

mode of speak - inserting Romani words into English sentences - is still referred to by the English
Gypsies as Romanes.
In the present days, as a result of the growing immigration of the Roma from central and
Eastern Europe many English Romanies have been learning the Romani dialects of recent immigrants
from Romania, Slovakia, Poland and elsewhere.
In Spain, Caló (Kalo) is the speech of Spanish gypsies and, although some linguists suggest that
it is a dialect, most scholars recognize that it should not be classified as such; it uses the Castellano
grammar and other Spanish language structures, introducing a limited number of Romani words into
the vocabulary. That is to say Spanish gypsies speak the languages of the Spanish state but with the
introduction of a few words of Romani language in them. Their use was essentially an element of
identification among the Spanish gypsy and a way to codify messages so as not to be understood by
non-Roma.
As well as in England, as a result of the immigration from the past years, an important number
of Gypsy immigrants from Central and Southern Europe are using their native dialects in Spain.
In Portugal, the dialect spoken in the past by the Gitanos, the Caló, assimilated words from
Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese but now it is extinct and only survives as vocabulary.
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Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria Ribeira do Louro (Spain), Asesoramiento, Tecnología e Investigación S.L. (Spain), Fundación
Secretariado Gitano (Spain), "ETHNOTOLERANCE" (Bulgary), Secretariado Diocesano de Lisboa da Obra Pastoral dos Ciganos (Portugal),
Grup Scolar Industrial Victor Jinga (Romania), SC CONCEPT CONSULTING SRL (România), University of Manchester (United Kingdom)