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Modern Lyuli are now settled and work in diverse occupations including in education, factories, business and more. [10] The Lyuli are devout Sunni Muslims, but some traces of pre-Islamic beliefs have continued to endure. [10] The Lyuli face discrimination from others and social marginalization. [16] [17] Some suffer from poverty and isolation. [17]
Persian Kowli, [1] also known as Ghorbati (Qorbati), Magadi (Mogadi), Qazulagi and Jogigi, Lafzi Mugat or Arabi/Arabcha in Central Asia, refers to various argots, spoken by the Ghorbati and closely related peoples, often called “Persian Gypsies” or “Central Asian Gypsies”. [2]
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
The Orthodox Christian Cypriot Roma live in the Southern part of Cyprus and are called Mandi. Cypriot Christian Roma speak Romani in their homes and Cypriot Greek and maintaining, except for well-known singers and musicians. [4] In 1960 the Gurbets were not registered as an ethnic minority but as T/Cypriots.
The dialect has many Greek and Turkish loanwords. [11] The loanword verb markers in Romani "are often Greek derived markers, maintained even when contact with Greek has ceased." [12] Linguist Petra Cech published a monograph codifying this dialect in 1996. [13] Many of the Sepečides from Greece live in Izmir, where their descendants speak only ...
Lyuli is part of WikiProject Central Asia, a project to improve all Central Asia-related articles. This includes but is not limited to Afghanistan , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Mongolia , Tajikistan , Tibet , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Xinjiang and Central Asian portions of Iran , Pakistan and Russia , region-specific topics, and anything else ...
The name originates with Byzantine Greek ἀτσίγγανοι (atsinganoi, Latin adsincani) or ἀθίγγανοι (athinganoi, literally "untouchables"), a term applied to the sect of the Melchisedechians.
Gurbeti (also Kurbet or Kurbat or غربتی in Persian) are a sub-group of the Romani people living in Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, Cyprus, [1] and the former Yugoslavia [2] [3] whose members are Eastern Orthodox and predominantly Muslim Roma.