Carpathian Romani

Romungro Romani
Central Romani
Native to	Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Ukrain
Native speakers	470,000  (2001)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Zone Romani Romungro Romani
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rmc

Carpathian Romani, also known as Central Romani, is 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 Romania's 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 countries of Western Europe.

Dialects

The Central Romani dialects are split into two main groups, a northern and a southern group (CL stands for main contact language):

• Northern
  • Western
    • Bohemian Romani (mixed)
    • Moravian Romani
    • West Slovak Romani (CL: Slovak)
  • Eastern
    • Central Slovak Romani
    • East Slovak Romani (CL: Slovak)
    • Southwestern Ukrainian (Ruthenian) Romani
    • South Polish Romani
  • Transylvanian (North Central) Romani
• Southern
  • Romungro Romani in Slovakia (CL: Slovak) and Hungary (CL: Hungarian)
  • Vend Romani
    • Burgenland Romani in the Austrian Burgenland
    • Hungarian Vend-Romani
    • Roman Romani in Austria (CL: German)

Bibliography

• Boretzky, Norbert. 1999. Die Gliederung der Zentralen Dialekte und die Beziehungen zwischen Südlichen Zentralen Dialekten (Romungro) und Südbalkanischen Romani-Dialekten. In: Halwachs, Dieter W. and Florian Menz (eds.) Die Sprache der Roma. Perspektiven der Romani-Forschung in Österreich im interdisziplinären und internazionalen Kontext. Klagenfurt: Drava. 210–276.
• Elšík, Viktor, Milena Hübschmannová, and Hana Šebková. 1999. The Southern Central (ahi-imperfect) Romani dialects of Slovakia and northern Hungary. In: Halwachs, Dieter W. and Florian Menz (eds.) Die Sprache der Roma. Perspektiven der Romani-Forschung in Österreich im interdisziplinären und internazionalen Kontext. Klagenfurt: Drava. 277–390.
• Elšík, Viktor. 2003. Interdialect contact of Czech (and Slovak) Romani varieties. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 162, 41–62.
• Elšík, Viktor, and Yaron Matras. 2006. Markedness and language change: The Romani sample. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.