Carpathian Romani

Carpathian Romani
Central Romani
Native to Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Ukraine
Native speakers
 150,000 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine (2001 & 2011 censuses)[1]
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rmc
Glottolog carp1235[2]

Carpathian Romani, also known as Central Romani or Romungro Romani, is a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken from southern Poland to Hungary, and from eastern Austria to Ukraine.

North Central Romani is one of a dozen of major dialect groups within Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Europe. The North Central dialects of Romani are traditionally spoken by some subethnic groups of the Romani people (Gypsies) in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia (with the exception of its southwestern and south-central regions), southeastern Poland, the Transcarpathia province of Ukraine, and parts of Romanian Transylvania. There are also established outmigrant communities of North Central Romani speakers in the United States, and recent outmigrant communities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, and some other Western European countries.

Dialects

Elšík [3] uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras [4]):

Sub-group Dialect Place
Northern Central Bohemian Czech Republic (extinct after Holocaust)
West Slovak Slovakia
East Slovak Slovakia, Czech Republic
South Polish Poland
Gurvari Gurvari Hungary [5]
Southern Central Romungro Hungary
Roman Austria
Vend Hungary, Slovenia

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Carpathian Romani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Carpathian Romani". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Elšík, Viktor (1999). "Dialect variation in Romani personal pronouns" (PDF). p. 2. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Matras, Yaron (2002). Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-02330-0
  5. ↑ "Romani Dialects". ROMLEX. Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. http://romani.uni-graz.at/romlex/dialects.xml.


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