Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities
Romani ( ROM -ə-nee, ROH - ;[ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] also Romanes ROM -ən-iss ,[ 16] Romany , Roma ; Romani: rromani ćhib ) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani people .[ 17] The largest of these are Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers),[ 18] Balkan Romani (600,000),[ 19] and Sinte Romani (300,000).[ 20] Some Romani communities speak mixed languages based on the surrounding language with retained Romani-derived vocabulary – these are known by linguists as Para-Romani varieties, rather than dialects of the Romani language itself.[ 21]
The differences between the various varieties can be as large as, for example, the differences between the Slavic languages .
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^ "Romani, Vlax" . Ethnologue . SIL International . Archived from the original on Sep 23, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2012 .
^ "Romani, Balkan" . Ethnologue . SIL International . Archived from the original on Sep 19, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2012 .
^ "Romani, Sinte" . Ethnologue . SIL International . Archived from the original on Sep 29, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2012 .
^ Matras (2006) "In some regions of Europe, especially the western margins (Britain, the Iberian peninsula, Scandinavia), Romani-speaking communities have given up their language in favor of the majority language, but have retained Romani-derived vocabulary as an in-group code. Such codes, for instance Angloromani (Britain), Caló (Spain), or Rommani (Scandinavia) are usually referred to as Para-Romani varieties."