ISO 639-3 rmc | Glottolog carp1235 | |
Native to Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Ukraine Native speakers 150,000 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine (2001 & 2011 censuses) Language family Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Central Zone
Romani
Carpathian Romani |
Carpathian Romani, also known as Central Romani or Romungro Romani, is a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken from southern Poland to Hungary, and from eastern Austria to Ukraine.
North Central Romani is one of a dozen of major dialect groups within Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Europe. The North Central dialects of Romani are traditionally spoken by some subethnic groups of the Romani people (Gypsies) in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia (with the exception of its southwestern and south-central regions), southeastern Poland, the Transcarpathia province of Ukraine, and parts of Romanian Transylvania. There are also established outmigrant communities of North Central Romani speakers in the United States, and recent outmigrant communities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, and some other Western European countries.
Dialects
Elšík uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras ):