Carpathian Romani (original) (raw)

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Group of dialects of the Romani language

Carpathian Romani
Central Romani
Native to Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Ukraine, Slovenia
Native speakers (150,000 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine cited 2001 & 2011 censuses)[1]
Language family Indo-European Indo-IranianIndo-AryanRomaniCarpathian Romani
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rmc
Glottolog carp1235
ELP Carpathian Romani

Carpathian Romani, also known as Central Romani or Romungro Romani, is a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken from southern Poland to Hungary, and from eastern Austria to Ukraine.

Central Romani is one of a dozen major dialect groups within Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Europe. The Central dialects of Romani are traditionally spoken by some subethnic groups of the Romani people in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia (with the exception of its southwestern and south-central regions), southeastern Poland, the Transcarpathia province of Ukraine, and parts of Romanian Transylvania. There are also established outmigrant communities of Central Romani speakers in the United States, and recent outmigrant communities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, and some other Western European countries.

Elšík[2] uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras[3]):

Sub-group Dialect Modern place
Northern Central Bohemian Czech Republic (extinct later after Porajmos)
West Slovak Slovakia
East Slovak Slovakia, Czech Republic
South Polish Poland
Gurvari Gurvari Hungary[4]
Southern Central Romungro Hungary
Roman Austria
Vend Hungary, Slovenia
  1. ^ Carpathian Romani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Elšík, Viktor (1999). "Dialect variation in Romani personal pronouns" (PDF). p. 2. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  3. ^ Matras, Yaron (2002). Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-02330-0, pp. 6-13
  4. ^ "ROMLEX: Romani Dialects". romani.uni-graz.at.

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