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Kal – Romani world music band from Serbia; Kibariye – Turkish singer of Romani descent; Kostas Hatzis – Greek singer-songwriter and musician; Lolita Flores (1958) – Spanish singer and actress; Los Niños de Sara – French (Spanish origin, Iberian Kale) rumba and flamenco singers and guitar players; Manitas de Plata (born 1921 ...
Romani was sometimes spelled Rommany, but more often Romany, while today Romani is the most popular spelling. Occasionally, the double r spelling (e.g., Rroma, Rromani) mentioned above is also encountered in English texts. The term Roma is increasingly encountered [109] [110] as a generic term for the Roma. [111] [112] [113]
Approximately 120,000 Romani live in Sweden, [156] including 65,000~ Romanisæl, 3,000~ Kaale, who have migrated from Finland since the 1960s, [157] and 50,000~ Eastern European Roma, who have only started to immigrate to Sweden and Norway in recent years. Romanisæl in Sweden have periodically suffered discrimination at the hands of the state.
The Romani people are today found across the world. Typically, Roma adopt given names that are common in the country of their residence. Seldom do modern Roma use the traditional name from their own language, such as Čingaren. Romanes is the only Indo-Aryan language that has been spoken exclusively around Europe since the Middle Ages. [16]
In the English language (according to the Oxford English Dictionary), Rom is a noun (with the plural Roma or Roms) and an adjective, while Romani is also a noun (with the plural Romanies) and an adjective. Both Rom and Romani have been in use in English since the 19th century as an alternative for Gypsy. Romani is also spelled Romany, or ...
Episode 1: "The G-Word." In the fall of 2019, reporter Faith E. Pinho received a tip from Paulina Stevens. Paulina said she had grown up in an insular Romani community in California, where she was ...
The 'Romani Holocaust' or Porrajmos, denotes the Nazi effort to eliminate the Roma population. As per Ian Hancock and Yitzhak Arad, the number of Romani deaths are uncertain due to the concealment of records in 'mass extermination camps' such as "Birkenau, Belzec, Treblinka". [6] Roma women in the Lublin Ghetto