Romani
Romani is documented on Dialect Atlas across 16 dialects, including Arli, Caló, Crimean Romani.
Dialects of Romani
- ArliEn balkanromani-varietet som talas i stor omfattning i Nordmakedonien, Kosovo, södra Serbien och Bulgarien.
- CalóIberian Romani · Zincaló · Caló RomaniThe Iberian para-Romani variety spoken by the Calé (Gitanos) of Spain and, in related forms, Portugal and southern France. A Romani-derived lexicon is embedded in a Castilian (or Catalan/Portuguese) grammatical frame; the older inflected Iberian Romani is no longer spoken. Caló vocabulary has left a marked imprint on Andalusian Spanish and flamenco.
- Crimean RomaniKrymitika Roma · Crimean RomaA Balkan Romani variety spoken by Roma communities of the Crimean peninsula and the northern Black Sea coast, marked by heavy contact influence from Crimean Tatar and other Turkic languages in both lexicon and phonology.
- Finnish KaloKaale · Finnish Kaale · Fíntiko RómmaA Northern Romani variety spoken by the Finnish Kale in Finland and, through twentieth-century migration, in Sweden. It shows heavy structural and phonological influence from Finnish, including consonant gradation, and is one of the most distinctive Northern Romani dialects. Intergenerational transmission has weakened markedly.
- GurbetiEn balkanromani-varietet med samhällen i Bosnien, Serbien och kringliggande länder.
- KalderasjEn vlach-romani-varietet med lång historia i Rumänien och på Balkan. Förknippades traditionellt med kopparslagaryrken.
- LovariEn vlach-romani-varietet med starkt ungerskt och slaviskt inflytande. Talas i Centraleuropa.
- Polsk-baltisk romaniPolska Roma · Xaladitka RomaEn nordlig romani-varietet historiskt rotad i Polen och Östersjöregionen, format av lång kontakt med slaviska och baltiska språk.
- RomanichalAngloromani · British Romani · Pogadi ChibThe 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.
- Ruska RomaRussian Romani · North Russian Romani · Xaladitka RomaA Northern Romani variety spoken by the Ruska Roma across Russia and Ukraine, shaped by long and intensive contact with Russian. It was the basis of a short-lived literary standard developed in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s and remains one of the more vital Northern Romani dialects.
- ScandoromaniTavringer Romani · Traveller Romani · RommaniA para-Romani variety spoken by Traveller communities in Sweden and Norway, combining a Romani-derived lexicon with a Scandinavian grammatical frame. It descends from the speech of Romani groups present in the region since the sixteenth century and survives today largely as an in-group vocabulary register.
- Sinte ManoucheSinti · Manush · SintéEn nordvästlig romanesvarietet som talas av sinti- och manouchesamhällen i Tyskland, Frankrike, Beneluxländerna och norra Italien. Format av lång kontakt med germanska och romanska språk.
- Slovakisk romaniCentral Slovak Romani · Servika RomaEn centraleuropeisk romanesvarietet som talas av romska samhällen i Slovakien, med ett starkt kontaktpräglat ordförråd från slovakiska, ungerska och angränsande språk.
- UrsariUrsaritska · RićhinariA Balkan Romani variety spoken in Romania and Moldova, traditionally associated with the Ursari, the Roma groups historically known as bear-leaders. It is grouped with the Balkan dialects rather than the surrounding Vlax varieties and shows substantial Romanian contact influence.
- Welsh RomaniKååle · Welsh KaleThe 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.
- ZargariZargari Romani · Zargari Romanes · Zargar RomaniEn starkt hotad romani-varietet som talas i och kring byn Zargar i provinsen Qazvin i nordvästra Iran, väster om Teheran. Samhället ska enligt traditionen ha bosatts under safavidernas tid och är en av de östligaste belagda romanitalande populationerna; dialekten bevarar en lexikalisk romanikärna men uppvisar starkt kontaktinflytande från persiska och azerbajdzjansk turkiska i fonologi, ordförråd och grammatik. Talarna är få och den intergenerationella överföringen har försvagats kraftigt.
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