Vlax Romani language
| Vlax Romani | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Albania, Colombia,[citation needed] Hungary and 21 other states worldwide |
| Native speakers | 1.5 million (date missing) |
| Language family |
Indo-European
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| Official status | |
| Official language in | Officially-recognised minority language in Hungary, Romania, Poland and Serbia |
| Regulated by | No official regulation |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rmy |
Vlax Romani is a dialect group of the Romani language. Vlax Romani varieties are spoken mainly in Southeastern Europe by Romani people.[1] Vlax Romani can also be referred to as an independent language[2] or as one dialect of the Romani language. Vlax Romani is the most widely-spoken dialect subgroup of the Romani language worldwide. Most Vlax Romani speakers live in Romania (241,617), Colombia (79,000)[3] and Albania (60,000).
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[edit] Classification
Vlax Romani is classified in two groups - Vlax I, or Northern Vlax (including Kalderash and Lovari), and Vlax II, or Southern Vlax.[1] Vlax Romani tends to be mutually intelligible with some dialects belonging to other dialect subgroups, mostly of Balkan Romani and Carpathian Romani. In the following table, CL stands for main contact language.
- Northern branch (also called Vlax I):
- Čekeši Romani in Russia (CL: Russian, Moldovan)
- Kalderash Romani in Romania (CL: Romanian), spoken by the Kalderash
- Lovari Romani in the Czech Republic (CL: Czech), Hungary (CL: Hungarian), spoken by the Lovari
- Mačvaja Romani
- Northern Ukrainian in Ukraine (CL: Ukrainian)
- Southern branch (also called Vlax II):
- Agia Varvara Romani in Greece (CL: Greek)
- Prekmurski Romani in northern Slovenia (CL: Slovenian)
- Gurbet Romani Serbia (CL: Serbian)
- Gurbet-Rabešte in Serbia & Montenegro (CL: Serbian)
- Kalburdžu Romani in Bulgaria (CL: Bulgarian, Turkish)
- Moldavian Romani in Moldova (CL: Moldovan, Russian)
- Prizren Romani in Serbia (CL: Serbian, Albanian)
- Rakarengo Romani in Moldova (CL: Moldovan)
- Thracian Kalajdži Romani (Vlaxurja) in Bulgaria (CL: Bulgarian)
[edit] Writing systems
Vlax Romani is written using the Romani orthography, which is a Latin-based alphabet with several additional characters. In the area of former Soviet Union it is written also in Cyrillic.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Norbert Boretzky and Birgit Igla. Kommentierter Dialektatlas des Romani. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2004. Teil 1: Vergleich der Dialekte.
- ^ Ethnologue report
- ^ The Ethnologue report; Ethnologue page on Colombia
[edit] External links
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Vlax Romani language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
