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Sinte Romani is a dialect of Romani and belongs to the Northwestern Romani dialect group, Sinti is the self-designation of a large Romani population that began leaving the Balkans early on in the dispersion of the Romani language group, from the end of the 14th century on, and migrated to German-speaking territory.
Many Romanichal speak Angloromani, a mixed language that blends Romani vocabulary with English syntax. Romanichal residing in England, Scotland, and Wales are part of the Gypsy (Romani), Roma, and Traveller community. [2] Genetic, cultural and linguistic findings indicate that the Romani people can trace their origins to Northern India. [3] [4] [5]
In the English language, Romani people have long been known by the exonym Gypsies or Gipsies, [88] which many Roma consider to be an ethnic slur. [89] [90] [91] The attendees of the first World Romani Congress in 1971 unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Roma, including "Gypsy". [92]
Gypsy may refer to any of the several languages of the Gypsies: The various Romani languages of Europe; The Para-Romani languages descending from them; The Domari language of the Middle East; The Seb Seliyer language of Iran; The Lomavren language of Armenia
Romani syntax is quite different from most Indo-Aryan languages, and shows more similarity to the Balkan languages. [ 69 ] Šebková and Žlnayová, while describing Slovak Romani, argues that Romani is a free word order language [ 24 ] and that it allows for theme-rheme structure , similarly to Czech, and that in some Romani dialects in East ...
Many words of Nordic Romani origin have survived in the Scandinavian languages, both in common speech and slang. [12] Examples from Swedish: tjej, meaning 'girl' (originally slang, but now a more common alternative to the older flicka) puffra, meaning 'gun' (used to be common slang) hak, meaning 'place, joint, establishment' (used to be common ...
The word, while sometimes positively embraced by Romani persons, is also sometimes rejected by other Romani persons as offensive due to it being tainted by its use as a racial slur and a pejorative connotation implying illegality and irregularity, [20] and some modern dictionaries either recommend avoiding use of the word gypsy entirely or give ...
Kalá or the Welsh Romani language is a variety of the Romani language spoken by the Kalé subgroup of the Romani people, who have been present in Wales since the 16th century. Kalá is one of the many Northern Romani dialects. [1] The majority of the vocabulary is of Romani origin but there are a number of loanwords from other languages.