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Romany language

Romani
romani čhib
Native to The Balkans, some of Eastern Europe and Romani diaspora
Native speakers
4 million or perhaps considerably more (no reliable estimate) (2011)
Indo-European
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3 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
Glottolog roma1329
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Albania
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Finland
France
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Russia
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United Kingdom

Romani (/ˈrməni/; also Romany, Gypsy, or Gipsy; Romani: romani čhib) is any of several languages of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. According to Ethnologue, seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their own. The largest of these are Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers),Balkan Romani (600,000), and Sinte Romani (300,000). 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.


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