Northern Romani | |
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Geographic distribution | Baltic States, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, Wales |
Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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Language codes | |
Glottolog | roma1330 |
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Northern Romani dialects are a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken in various Northern, North-Western, North-Central and North-Eastern European countries.
The first grammatical outline of the Romani language was done on the Sinti variety. [1]
Elšík [2] uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras [1] ):
Sub-group | Dialect | Place |
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Kā̊lē | Romnimus | North Wales |
Romanichal | Romanes | England, Scotland |
Kaale | (Kaalengō čib) | Finland (only about a thousand speakers) [1] |
Northeastern | Lotfitko | Latvia [3] |
Xaladytko | North Russian [4] | |
Lešaki | Poland | |
Sinto-Manuš | Prajstiko | Prussia [5] |
Hameln Sinti | North Germany [6] | |
Marburg Sinti | West Germany | |
Bohemian Sinti | Czech lands before World War II | |
Hungarian Sinti | Hungary | |
Westphalian Sinti | Northeastern Germany | |
Auvergne Manuš | South Central France | |
Piedmontese Sinti | Northwest Italy | |
Lombardian Sinti | North Italy | |
Venetian Sinti | Northeast Italy | |
Apennine | Abruzzian | Central Italy |
Calabrian | South Italy |