Romani is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani people, a stateless people spread across many countries. Its largest dialects are Balkan Romani, Vlax Romani and Sinte Romani.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2015 estimate. StatusWikipedia article on Romani: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) Connections
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Romani, where written, most commonly uses the Latin alphabet.
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The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani ( ROH-mə-nee or ROM-ə-nee), colloquially known as the Roma (sing.: Rom), are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who traditionally led a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.
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1. Wikipedia: Romani Language
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Most Roma speak one of its dialects.Its largest dialects are Balkan Romani (about 600,000 speakers), Vlax Romani (500,000), and Sinte Romani (300,000). Some Romani communities speak mixed languages based on the surrounding language with some Romani-derived vocabulary; these are known as Para-Romani varieties rather than Romani dialects.
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Indo-Iranian
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Indo-Aryan
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Romani was first written during the 16th century, when word lists were produced by non-Romani scholars such as Andrew Borde.
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