Native to Greece ISO 639-3 rge | Language family mixed Romani–Greek Glottolog roma1240 | |
Native speakers None
30 use it as a secret language (2000) Dialects Dortika (in Eurytania)
Kaliarda (in Athens) |
Romano-Greek (also referred to as Hellenoromani; Greek: Ελληνο-ρομανική) is a nearly extinct mixed language (referred to as Para-Romani in Romani linguistics), spoken by the Romani people in Greece that arose from language contact between Romani speaking people and the Greek language. The language is expected to be a secret language spoken in Thessaly and Central Greece Administrative Unit. Typologically the language is structured on Greek with heavy lexical borrowing from Romani. Related variants of this language are Dortika. Dortika is a secret language spoken mainly in Athens by traveling builders from Eurytania Prefecture. In both cases, the languages are most likely not native to their speakers.
References
Romano-Greek language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA