Example sentences for: caló

How can you use “caló” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Today, however, many words from caló are fully integrated into the standard -vocabulary of Chicano Spanish, and writers incorporate it into poetry, short stories, and novels.

  • Caló was originally the language of the Spanish gypsies, or a dialect of Spanish showing traces of many languages acquired by the gypsies throughout their world wanderings.

  • “La Vida de un Bato Loco,” written by an informant of Linda Katz and reproduced in her work, provides a good example of the literary uses of caló.

  • Caló became the dialect of the underworld of Mexico City and migrated into the Southwest, as some believe, through the city of El Paso.

  • Katz includes a glossary of the caló words used in the story.


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