Roma (Gypsy)

Roma

Estimates suggest that there are between approximately 15 and 30 million Roma worldwide. Some 10 million Roma live in Europe, and they make up that continent’s largest minority population.

The European tribes include :

• the Boyash of Romania;
• the Calé of Spain, Finland, and Wales;
• the Manouche of France;
• the Roma, a subgroup of the larger Roma population, of the Balkans and Eastern Europe;
• the Romanichals of the United Kingdom;
• and the Sinti of central Europe and Germany.

Glossary

Boyash (also Bayash, Beyash). A Vlax Romani population, wide spread throughout Europe and the Americas, who descend from the Rudari and who have a Rumanian dialect as their native language instead of Romanes.

Calé (or Kalé). Spanish Roma.

Calé (or Kalé, Caló, Cali). Iberian Romanes dialect, meaning "black", a hybrid of Romani lexicon and Castilian phonology, morphology and syntax.

Manouches. French Roma, from the Romanes word "manúŠ", meaning "person".

Rom. In all varieties of Western Romanes this word is found meaning "husband" or "Roma man" (as opposed to Gadjo or non-Roma man); for Vlax-speaking Roma, it is further used to define themselves as opposed to other, non-Vlax speaking Roma groups. The feminine is Romni (Romanes).

Romanichal (also Romnichal, Romnichel). Designation for those Roma populations from northern Europe, especially the British Isles.

Sinti (or Senti, Cinti). German Roma.

Sinto. Sinti man.

GYPSY LANGUAGES (15)

ANGLOROMANI [RME] United Kingdom
CALO [RMR] Spain
DOMARI [RMT] Iran
LOMAVREN [RMI] Armenia
ROMANI, BALKAN [RMN] Yugoslavia
ROMANI, BALTIC [ROM] Poland
ROMANI, CARPATHIAN [RMC] Czech Republic
ROMANI, KALO FINNISH [RMF] Finland
ROMANI, SINTE [RMO] Yugoslavia
ROMANI, VLACH [RMY] Romania
ROMANI, WELSH [RMW] United Kingdom
ROMANO-GREEK [RGE] Greece
ROMANO-SERBIAN [RSB] Yugoslavia
TAVRINGER ROMANI [RMU] Sweden
TRAVELLER DANISH [RMD] Denmark

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