Romani
language of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
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Summary
Romani is a macrolanguage[1]. Romani draws 9,448 Wikipedia views per month (macrolanguage category, ranking #4 of 12).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Albania[3], Austria[4], Bosnia and Herzegovina[5], Colombia[6], Denmark[7], Finland[8], Germany[9], Hungary[10], Kosovo[11], Montenegro[12], North Macedonia[13], Norway[14], Poland[15], Romania[16]
- Instance of: natural language[17], modern language[18], language subfamily[19]
- Subclass of: Central Indo-Aryan[20]
- Writing system: Latin script[21], Cyrillic script[22], Devanagari[23]
- Part of: non-territorial languages of France[24]
- Wikimedia language code: rmy[25]
- Has part(s): Balkan Romani[26], Baltic Romani[27], Carpathian Romani[28], Finnish Kalo[29], Serbisk[30], Vlax Romani[31], Welsh Romani[32], Caló[33]
- Topic's main category: Category:Romani language[34]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 46,000,000[35]
- Described by source: Roma in the Czech Republic[36], Omniglot[37]
- Topic has template: Template:Lang-rom[38]
- Native label: Romani chib[39]
- Short name: цыганская[40]
- Different from: Romanian[41], Romansh[42], Aromanian[43], Rhaeto-Romance[44], Roman language[45], Romance languages[46]
- UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[47]
- Indigenous to: Romani people[48]
- Studied by: Romani studies[49]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ROM[50]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[51]
Why It Matters
Romani has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] Romani is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]
Romani has been cited as an influence by Yenish[54], a mixed language[55], in Germany[56].
FAQs
Who did Romani influence?
Romani has been cited as an influence by Yenish[54].