| Vlax Romani | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Albania, Colombia, Hungary and 21 other states worldwide |
| Native speakers | 1.5 million (date missing) |
| Language family |
Indo-European
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| Official status | |
| Official language in | Officially-recognised minority language in Hungary, Romania, Poland and Serbia |
| Regulated by | No official regulation |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rmy |
Vlax Romani is a dialect group of the Romani language. Vlax Romani varieties are spoken mainly in Southeastern Europe by Romani people.[1] Vlax Romani can also be referred to as an independent language[2] or as one dialect of the Romani language. Vlax Romani is the most widely-spoken dialect subgroup of the Romani language worldwide. Most Vlax Romani speakers live in Romania (241,617), Colombia (79,000)[3] and Albania (60,000).
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Vlax Romani is classified in two groups - Vlax I, or Northern Vlax (including Kalderash and Lovari), and Vlax II, or Southern Vlax.[1] Vlax Romani tends to be mutually intelligible with some dialects belonging to other dialect subgroups, mostly of Balkan Romani and Carpathian Romani. In the following table, CL stands for main contact language.
Vlax Romani is written using the Romani orthography, which is a Latin-based alphabet with several additional characters. In the area of former Soviet Union it is written also in Cyrillic.