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    Balkan Roma, Balkaniko Romanes, or Balkan Gypsy is a specific non-Vlax dialect of the Romani language, spoken by groups within the Balkans, which include...
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  • largest of these are Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers), Balkan Romani (600,000), and Sinte Romani (300,000). Some Romani communities speak mixed languages...
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    people in western Europe, the Romani are culturally different. The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language with strong Balkan and Greek influence. It is...
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    individual Romani people from other subethnic groups who have accepted Islam. Xoraxane Roma in Balkan Romani language, are non-Vlax Romani people, who...
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    dialect of the Romani language. Vlax Romani is the second most widely spoken dialect subgroup of the Romani language worldwide, after Balkan Romani. The language's...
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    selling Romani cuisine opened in Slovenia in 2014. Romani cuisine, the traditional food of the Romani people, includes dishes from traditional Balkan cuisine...
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    Romani people in Kosovo are part of the wider Romani people community, the biggest minority group in Europe. Kosovo Roma speak the Balkan Romani language...
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  • distinct from the Roma, arrived from the north. Other Romani groups migrated from the Balkans and settled in Southern Italy and Central Italy. From Bosnia...
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    (Horahane) in the Balkans adopted the Islamic culture during the Ottoman Empire period, and so did the Ritual purity in Islam. Christian Romani people incorporate...
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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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    municipality in the world with a Muslim Romani people majority and the only municipality where Balkan Romani is an official language alongside Macedonian...
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    Romani people in Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Циганите в България, romanized: Ciganite v Bǎlgariya; Romani: Romane ando Bulgariya) constitute Europe's densest...
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    Roma, including relatives of victims and survivors. Some Russian and Balkan Romani activists protest against the use of the word porajmos. In various dialects...
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  • other Dialects spoken by the Roma In Greece, as the Agios Athanasios-Balkan Romani, the Parakalamos-Romacilikanes, or the Volos Sevlengere Roma. Mostly...
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  • Romani people, or Roma (Serbian: Роми, romanized: Romi), are the fourth largest ethnic group in Serbia, numbering 131,936 (1.98%) according to the 2022...
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    languages are Russian, Turkish (9.1%), and Romani (4.2%) (the two main varieties being Balkan Romani and Vlax Romani). There are smaller numbers of speakers...
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  • Kosovo War of 1999, the Balkan Egyptians or Ashkali people registered themselves as Albanians. While some Ashkali speak Romani language, Egyptians usually...
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  • Xoraxane (term) (category Romani groups)
    population in the Balkans, or alternatively, all Muslim Roma in the areas of Southern Europe and West Asia. They are non-Vlax Romani people, who adopted...
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    The Balkan sprachbund or Balkan language area is an ensemble of areal features—similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology—among the languages...
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  • Indo-European Albanian: Cigan Armenian: գնչու, gnčʿu Balkan Romani: Čingaren Caló (Spanish Romani): čingarár Esperanto: Cigano Hindi: चिंगारी Chingaari...
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  • of Muslim Romani people is also influenced by Balkan cuisine and Turkish cuisine. Many Roma do not eat food prepared by a non-Roma. Romani dishes are...
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    The Romani people have several distinct populations, the largest being the Roma and the Calé, who reached Anatolia and the Balkans in the early 12th century...
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  • language. After that the Romani language broke down into Balkan Romani and Central Romani. Baltic Romani came from the Central Romani dialect which branches...
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  • the self-designation of a large Romani population that began leaving the Balkans early on in the dispersion of the Romani language group, from the end of...
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  • Zargari (or Romāno) is a dialect of Balkan Romani, spoken in Zargar region (Abyek district) of the Qazvin Province of in Iran by the ethnic Zargari people...
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  • Balkan jazz is an umbrella term for jazz from different parts of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Jazz in the region may incorporate various...
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  • are a Muslim Romani ethnic group that live in Zargar, in northwestern Iran. They speak Zargari Romani, a distinct dialect of Balkan Romani most closely...
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    were 3,246 Romani individuals living in Slovenia. They constitute 0.5 percent of the total population. The Slovenia Roma speak Balkan Romani and Italian...
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  • Arlije (category Romani Islam)
    Montenegro. Beside Macedonian and Albanian, they speak the Arli dialect of Balkan Romani. The word Arlije (singular Arli) is derived from the Turkish word yerli...
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    historical documents may be related to the contemporary Balkan groups who spoke Turkish only with few Romani words in their jargon and who are often Alevis of...
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