Los gitanos en España y el posible origen del caló

The paper pretends to testify a possible multi-group origin of the Romani people of Spain and the authors present a series of arguments that speak for the polygenetic origin of Caló. It would imply that the Spanish Para-Romani has derived, in fact, from various dialects of Romani and not only from one historical dialect of the Romani language, as it has been supposed. It is based on the result of a comparative study of various dialects of Romani and varieties of Para-Romani in Spain and Latin America and on documenting the strategy of usage of different lexical and grammatical items coming from different Romani and Para-Romani varieties according to register and pragmatic factors in the act of communication (inter-Romani and inter-Para-Romani diglosia today). Other arguments are based on testified lexical borrowings from other languages that work here as proofs of migratory routes in the past and witnesses of the fact that different groups of Roma people were coming to Spain in different times and their own dialects have had different function in the process of forming of Spanish Para-Romani (inter- Romani diglosia in the past).