Romani language

E6220

Indo-Aryan language natural language

The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language traditionally spoken by Romani communities across Europe and beyond, featuring numerous dialects influenced by the languages of the regions where its speakers live.

Aliases (10)

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indo-Aryan language → natural language →
alternativeName	Romani čhib → Romany → Rromani ćhib →
closelyRelatedTo	Hindi → Punjabi → Rajasthani languages →
family	Indo-European languages →
feature	SVO basic word order → case system → grammatical gender → postposed definite articles in some dialects → rich inflectional morphology →
hasDialect	Angloromani (mixed variety) → Balkan Romani → Carpathian Romani → Finnish Kalo → Iberian Romani → Kalderash Romani → Lovari Romani → Sinti Romani → Vlax Romani → Welsh Romani →
influencedBy	German language → Greek language → Hungarian language → Romanian language → Slavic languages → Spanish language → Turkish language → various local majority languages →
ISO639-1Code	rom →
ISO639-2Code	rom →
ISO639-3Code	rom →
languageAgency	none (no single regulating body) →
languageFamilyBranch	Central Indo-Aryan →
nativeTo	Romani people →
origin	Indian subcontinent →
region	Americas → Central Asia → Europe → Middle East →
scriptUsage	no single standardized orthography →
status	minority language in many European countries →
subfamily	Indo-Aryan languages →
UNESCOStatus	varies by dialect, several are endangered →
usedBy	Romani communities →
writingSystem	Arabic script → Cyrillic script → Greek script → Latin script →

Referenced by (29)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Romani language ("Vlax Romani") → Romani language ("Balkan Romani") → Romani language ("Iberian Romani") → Romani language ("Carpathian Romani") → Romani language ("Welsh Romani") →	hasDialect
International Romani Union ("Romani") → International Romani Union ("Romani") →	hasLanguage
Lower Saxony ("Romani") → Novi Sad ("Romani") →	hasMinorityLanguage
Lovari → Sinti →	languageFamily
Porajmos ("Romani") → Samudaripen →	languageOfTerm
International Romani Union → Romani organizations →	promotes
Romani language ("Romani čhib") →	alternativeName
Kalderash ("Vlax Romani") →	dialectGroup
Balkan Sprachbund ("Romani language family") →	hasLanguageFamily
Balkan Sprachbund →	hasMemberLanguage
Burgenland ("Romani") →	hasRecognizedMinorityLanguage
Christian Roma ("Romani languages") →	language
Institute for the Languages of Finland ("Romani (Finnish Romani)") →	languageRegulated
Horahane Roma →	languageVarieties
Roma people →	primaryLanguage
Roma →	speaks
Finnish Kalo ("Romani languages") →	subfamily
Lovari ("Vlax Romani") →	subgroupOf
Romani →	traditionalLanguage
Roma people →	usesLanguage