Dialect comparisonRomanichal vs Welsh Romani
Compare two dialects of Romani side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.
RomanichalAngloromani · British Romani · Pogadi Chib
The Romani variety of the Romanichal Travellers of England and the wider British Isles. The older inflected dialect is no longer spoken; it survives as Angloromani, a para-Romani register in which a substantial Romani-derived lexicon is embedded in an English grammatical frame. Diaspora communities exist in North America and Australia.
- Approximate centre
- 52.48°, -1.90°
Welsh RomaniKååle · Welsh Kale
The inflected Northern Romani variety historically spoken by the Kååle of Wales. It was extensively documented by John Sampson in the early twentieth century and is now extinct as a first language, the last fluent speakers having died in the mid-twentieth century. It is notable as the last conservatively inflected Romani dialect attested in Britain.
- Approximate centre
- 52.13°, -3.78°
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