The Romani people in Spain are generally known as gitanos . Spanish Romanies belong to the Iberian Kale group, with smaller populations in Portugal (known as ciganos), in southern France and Morocco. A number of gitanos were also historically present in Algeria, together with other Spanish Pied-Noir immigrant communities under French rule, although whether any remain is unknown. They tend to speak Caló, which basically encompasses a range of regional dialects of Spanish with numerous Romani loan words and mannerisms. Nevertheless, to varying degrees, they identify with Andalusian culture and music due to the large gitano population present in that region. Although no official census exists, the latest estimates of the Romani population in Spain are of 970,000 people or 2% of the total population. It is not clear whether this figure refers to gitanos only or to the total Rom population, including those of Eastern European origin.
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