Northern Romani is group of dialects of the Romani language spoken in various Northern European, Central European and Eastern European countries.
Northern Romani | |
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Geographic distribution | Baltic States, Belgium, Britain, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scandinavia, Slovakia, Spain |
Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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Glottolog | roma1330 |
The first grammatical outline of Romani was done on Sinti variety.[1]
Elšík[2] uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras[1]):
Sub-group | Dialect | Place |
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British | Welsh | Wales |
English | England | |
Finnish | Finnish | 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 |