Romani language

Romani
  • Romany
  • Romanes
  • Roma
rromani ćhib
EthnicityRomani
Native speakers
4.6 million (2015)[1][2]
Indo-European
Early form
Early Romani
Dialects
  • Balkan Romani (including Zargari Romani)
  • Baltic Romani
  • Carpathian Romani
  • Northern Romani (including Finnish Kalo, Sinte Romani, Welsh Romani)
  • Vlax Romani
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-2rom
ISO 639-3rom – inclusive code
Individual codes:
rmn – Balkan Romani
rml – Baltic Romani
rmc – Carpathian Romani
rmf – Finnish Kalo
rmo – Sinte Romani
rmy – Vlax Romani
rmw – Welsh Romani
rmq – Spanish Romani
Glottologroma1329

Romani (/ˈrɒməni, ˈr-/ ROM-ə-nee, ROH-;[12][13][14][15] also Romanes /ˈrɒmənɪs/ ROM-ən-iss,[16] Romany, Roma; Romani: rromani ćhib) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani people.[17] The largest Romani dialects are Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers),[18] Balkan Romani (600,000),[19] and Sinte Romani (300,000).[20] Some Romani communities speak mixed languages based on the surrounding language with retained Romani-derived vocabulary – these are known by linguists as Para-Romani varieties, rather than dialects of the Romani language itself.[21]

The differences between the various varieties can be as large as, for example, the differences between the Slavic languages.[22]

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  10. ^ Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation (4 June 2018). "Nasjonale minoriteter" [National minorities]. regjeringen.no (in Norwegian). Norwegian Government Security and Service Organisation. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  11. ^ "Про затвердження переліку мов національних меншин (спільнот) та корінних народів України, яким загрожує зникнення". Official webportal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 7 June 2024.
  12. ^ "Romany" in Oxford Living Dictionaries
  13. ^ "Romany" in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
  14. ^ "Romany" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  15. ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
  16. ^ "Romanes" in Collins English Dictionary; "Romanes" in Dictionary.com.
  17. ^ "Romani". Ethnologue. SIL International. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
  18. ^ "Romani, Vlax". Ethnologue. SIL International. Archived from the original on Sep 23, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
  19. ^ "Romani, Balkan". Ethnologue. SIL International. Archived from the original on Sep 19, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
  20. ^ "Romani, Sinte". Ethnologue. SIL International. Archived from the original on Sep 29, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
  21. ^ Matras (2006) "In some regions of Europe, especially the western margins (Britain, the Iberian peninsula, Scandinavia), Romani-speaking communities have given up their language in favor of the majority language, but have retained Romani-derived vocabulary as an in-group code. Such codes, for instance Angloromani (Britain), Caló (Spain), or Rommani (Scandinavia) are usually referred to as Para-Romani varieties."
  22. ^ Hübschmannová 1993, p. 23.