Gacería
| Gacería | |
|---|---|
| Gacería, Briquero, Briquería | |
| Native to | Spain |
| Region | Province of Segovia |
| Latin | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | It is not officially recognized. (It has a certain recognition in local signage. It appears in official documents of the Sepúlveda community since at least December 9, 1519 and of the city council since 1603.) |
| Regulated by | There is no official standardizing body (The Cantalejo City Council has been compiling its use since 1993.) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Extension of the variant in the province of Segovia and its surroundings
Siglo XXI:
Ochavo de Cantalejo with some presence of the variant
Other municipalities with strong historical reminiscences of well-known gazebos
Rest of the province with little presence
Extinto:
Remains of the Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Sepúlveda, with notable recognition at least during the 16th century
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Gacería, also known as briquería or briquero, is a linguistic variant whose core has its origins between the 12th and 13th centuries, it was especially rooted during the 19th and 20th centuries as cant and slang within the professional world of threshing and farming implement manufacturers, cattle dealers as well as other traditional commercial activities, although its use is not limited to work activity.
It is spoken especially in the Segovian city of Cantalejo and neighboring municipalities, although it is lukewarmly extended in other areas of the province of Segovia, in Castile and León, Spain.
Gacería incorporated Galician, French, Basque and Arabic words into its vocabulary, a linguistic practice employed also by traveling professional groups of Castile. Users of Gacería also incorporated words from Caló (Spanish Romani), Germanic languages and Catalan. These trade routes did not usually extend into the Basque Country or Valencia, but words from these foreign lexicons were incorporated for their foreignness.