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Romani  

Definition

  • Romani (also Romany or Gypsy) is a Balkanised neo-Indo-European language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch. It is spoken principally in Europe by Romani people.The alphabets used in the different varieties of the Romany generally correspond to those countries where the corresponding Roma communities live. The alphabets of use are the Latin, the Cyrillic, the Arabic and the Greek alphabets.

Entry terms

  • Gipsy
  • Romany

Identifier

  • ROM

Change note

  • Documentation for ISO 639 identifier ‘ROM’: The individual languages within this macrolanguage are: Balkan Romani rmn, Baltic Romani rml, Carpathian Romani rmc, Finnish Kalo rmf, Sinte Romani rmo, Vlax Romani rmy, Welsh Romani rmw.
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Notation

  • rom
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In other languages

  • ромски

    Bulgarian

  • romski

    Croatian

  • romština

    Czech

  • romani

    Danish

  • Romani

    Dutch

  • roma keel

    Estonian

  • romani

    Finnish

  • romani

    French

  • Romani

    German

  • ρομανί

    Greek

  • romani

    Hungarian

  • roma
  • romani

    Icelandic

  • Romani

    Irish

  • romaní

    Italian

  • čigānu valoda

    Latvian

  • romu valoda
  • romų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • ромски

    Macedonian

  • Zingaru

    Maltese

  • romani

    Norwegian

  • romski

    Polish

  • romani

    Portuguese

  • romani

    Romanian

  • romani ćhib

    Romany

  • цыга́нский

    Russian

  • ромски

    Serbian

  • romski

    Serbo-Croatian

  • rómčina

    Slovak

  • romščina

    Slovenian

  • romaní

    Spanish

  • romani

    Swedish

  • romani

    Turkish

  • циганська мова

    Ukrainian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ROM

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