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.
Elšík[1] uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras):
Sub-group | Dialect | Place | |
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Kalá | Welsh Romani (Kalá) | Wales | |
Romanichal | Angloromani | England, Scotland | |
Kàlo | Finnish Kalo | Finland (only about a thousand speakers) | |
Northeastern | Lotfitko | Latvia[2] | |
Xaladytko | North Russian[3] | ||
Lešaki | Poland | ||
Sinto-Manuš | Prajstiko | Prussia[4] | |
Hameln Sinti | North Germany[5] | ||
Marburg Sinti | West Germany | ||
Bohemian Sinti | Czech lands before World War II | ||
Hungarian Sinti | Hungary | ||
Westphalian Sinti | Northeastern Germany | ||
Auvergne Manuš | South Central France | ||
Piedmontese Sinti | Northwest Italy | ||
Lombardian Sinti | North Italy | ||
Venetian Sinti | Northeast Italy | ||
Apennine | Abruzzian | Central Italy | |
Calabrian | South Italy |