• Kalderash Romani is a group of Vlax dialects spoken by the Kalderash Romani, mainly in Romania. Its main contact language is Romanian. The Bible was translated...
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    The Kalderash are a subgroup of the Romani people. They were traditionally coppersmiths and metal workers and speak a number of Romani dialects grouped...
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    used to refer to all Romani people as a whole. Sinti, concentrated in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy. Kalderash, concentrated in Romania...
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    român – ultimately from Latin. Vlax Romani is classified in two groups: Vlax I, or Northern Vlax (including Kalderash and Lovari), and Vlax II, or Southern...
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    vocabulary from Kalderash Romani but using Basque grammar, similar to the way the Angloromani language of the Roma in England mixes Romani vocabulary and...
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    Romani Americans (Romani: romani-amerikani) are Americans who have full or partial Romani ancestry. It is estimated that there are one million Romani...
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    beginning in the 15th century. The Romani people in Europe may belong to various subgroups such as the Boyash, Kalderash, Kalé, Kaale, Lăutari, Lovari, Manouche...
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    common origin and were traditionally called Chaładytka Roma. The Ruska Romani language contains Russian, Polish, and German lexicon, as well as some Russian...
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  • subgroups and clans with their own self-designations, such as the Sinti, Kalderash, Boyash, Manouche, Lovari, Lăutari, Machvaya, Romanichal, Romanisael,...
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  • immigrated in the early 20th century, mainly from the Vlax group of Kalderash. Many Romanis also settled in Latin America. According to historian Norman Davies...
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  • Romani people in France (French: Roms en France), generally known in spoken French as gitans, tsiganes or manouches, are an ethnic group that originated...
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  • Para-Romani are various mixed languages of non-Indo-Aryan linguistic classification containing considerable admixture from the Romani language. They are...
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  • Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India...
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  • 19th centuries to escape slavery. The Vlax Roma claim to retain Romani culture, language, and social structure despite discrimination they have faced. In...
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  • (Poljako, plural Poljača) by the Kalderash, which is one of the ethnonyms the Kalderar use to refer to different Romani groups. The sedentary population...
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  • named after the Mačva region, which they settled from modern day Hungary. Kalderash Ruska Roma "Первое Арбитражное Учреждение - Авторизация". Historical Dictionary...
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  • The Romani language has for most of its history been an entirely oral language, with no written form in common use. Although the first example of written...
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    spring. Cornmeal is a staple for the Kalderash. Romani slaves were fed cornmeal during slavery in Romania. Romani people also make an unleavened bread...
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  • is a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani ethnic groups. It is a mixed language (referred to as a Para-Romani language in Romani linguistics)...
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    others consider it to be derogatory or an ethnic slur. The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language with strong Balkan influence. It is divided into several...
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    regarded as the best musicians among the Crimean Tatars. Erromintxela - Kalderash Romani people who deeply integrated into Basque society Chingene They also...
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    The Romani in Spain, generally known by the endonym Calé, or the exonym gitanos (Spanish pronunciation: [xiˈtanos]), belong to the Iberian Romani subgroup...
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  • have argued that roots of Romani languages lie in India: the languages have grammatical characteristics of Indian languages and share with them a part...
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    Romanichal (category Romani groups)
    English Gypsies) are a Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom. Many Romanichal speak Angloromani, a mixed language that blends Romani vocabulary with English...
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  • Scottish Romani are the Romani people of Scotland. This includes Romanichal (locally also known as Border Gypsies) and Lowland Romani (Lowland Gypsies)...
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    population. On the other hand, less than half are native speakers of the Romani language. History, genetics and linguistics all indicate the Roma originate...
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  • Laiuse Romani was a Romani variety spoken in Estonia. It was a mixed language based on Romani and Estonian. The Romani people first appeared in Estonia...
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  • the local Kalderash. The kris covers issues involving only Romani parties, since those involving also non-Romani parties are dealt by non-Romani institutions...
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    Matéo Maximoff (category Kalderash people)
    Maximoff became an Evangelical pastor. He translated the Bible into Kalderash Romani language from French in 1994, although only the New Testament, Ruth and...
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  • Romani language. The entire Bible has been translated to Kalderash Romani. Some traditional communities have expressed opposition to codifying Romani...
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