Northern Romani dialects explained

Northern Romani
Region:Baltic States, Belgium, Britain, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scandinavia, Slovakia, Spain
Familycolor:Indo-European
Fam2:Indo-Iranian
Fam3:Indo-Aryan
Fam4:Central Zone
Fam5:Romani
Glotto:roma1330
Glottorefname:Northern Romani
Map:Romany dialects Northern.svg

Northern Romani is a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken in various Northern European, northern Central European and northern Eastern European countries.

The first grammatical outline of Romani was done on Sinti variety.

Dialects

Elšík[1] uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras):

Sub-groupDialectPlace
KaláWelsh Romani (Kalá)Wales
RomanichalAngloromaniEngland, Scotland
KàloFinnish KaloFinland (only about a thousand speakers)
NortheasternLotfitkoLatvia[2]
XaladytkoNorth Russian[3]
LešakiPoland
Sinto-ManušPrajstikoPrussia[4]
Hameln SintiNorth Germany[5]
Marburg SintiWest Germany
Bohemian SintiCzech lands before World War II
Hungarian SintiHungary
Westphalian SintiNortheastern Germany
Auvergne ManušSouth Central France
Piedmontese SintiNorthwest Italy
Lombardian SintiNorth Italy
Venetian SintiNortheast Italy
ApennineAbruzzianCentral Italy
CalabrianSouth Italy

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elšík . Viktor . Dialect variation in Romani personal pronouns . 1999 . 2. PDF. 17 September 2013.
  2. Web site: ROMLEX: Romani Dialects. Romani.uni-graz.at. 14 January 2018.
  3. Bakker, Peter; Kiuchukov, Khristo (2000). "What is the Romani language? (Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press): p. 100.
  4. Web site: Elšík, Viktor. 2005. "Sintská a manušská romština: sociolingvistická situace, komunity mluvčích a dokumentace jejich jazyka". PDF. 9. Ulug.ff.cuni.cz. 14 January 2018.
  5. Elšík 2005: p. 10