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Para Romani

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Para-Romani are non-Romani languages with considerable admixture from Romani (as with Yiddish or Ladino among Jews) spoken by Romani communities. Some Para-Romani languages have no structural features of Romani at all, taking only the vocabulary from Romani. The technical term in linguistics for such a language is a mixed language. Reflecting the linguistic makeup of Europe, most are based on Indo-European languages, except for Laiuse Romani, which is based on Estonian, and Erromintxela, which is based on Basque.

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Based on Indo-European languages

  • Armenian-based
  • Lomavren language
  • Germanic-based
  • Angloromani
  • Danish Rodi, Traveller Danish
  • Rodi language, Traveller Norwegian
  • Scandoromani language, Traveller Swedish
  • Sinti-Manouche
  • Greek-based
  • Romano-Greek
  • Romance-based
  • Caló
  • Slavonic-based
  • †Bohemian Romani (which was moving towards being a Para-Romani variety prior to extinction)
  • Romano-Serbian
  • Persian-based
  • Afghanistan Gorbat
  • Persian Romani
  • Magati

    • Based on non-Indo European languages

  • Finnic-based
  • †Laiuse Romani (Estonian-based)
  • Turkic-based
  • Crimean-Romani (Crimean Tatar-based)
  • Kurbetcha (Turkish-based)
  • Basque-based
  • Erromintxela

    • References

    Para-Romani Wikipedia
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