Finnish Kalo language

Finnish Kalo
Fíntika Rómma
Native to	Finland, Sweden
Native speakers	10,000 in Finland (2001 census)^[1] 1,700 in Sweden (2009)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Zone Romani Northern Romani Baltic Romani Finnish Kalo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`rmf`
Glottolog	`kalo1256`^[2]

Finnish Kalo (Fíntika Rómma) is a language of the Romani language family (a subgroup of Indo-European) spoken by Finnish Kale. The language is not inherently intelligible with Scandoromani or Angloromani. The speakers of the language came originally from Scotland.

References

1 2 Finnish Kalo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kalo Finnish Romani". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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