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Romany
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Romany ( Gypsy ) Nomadic people and their language. Romanies are believed to have...popular tradition. The Romany language originated...European languages . Many Romanies today speak it as a...there is little written Romany.
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Romany Rye, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Romany Rye, The, a novel by Borrow , published 1857. ‘Romany Rye’ in gypsy language means ‘Gypsy Gentleman’, a name applied to Borrow from his youth by Ambrose Smith, the Norfolk gypsy. This book...
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Vlach Gypsies of Hungary
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Vlach Gypsies are one branch of the Romany-speaking Gypsies who lived for several...Hungary. Linguistic Affiliation. Rom speak Romany (also spelled "Romani") or Romanes as they say. The vocabulary items of the Romany spoken by any one group of Rom are deeply...
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Shelta Thari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...George Borrow, the first authority on Romany and Gypsy lore, had never stumbled upon...wanderer who heard them conversing in Romany. Leland questioned the man as to how...minklers' thari. I thought as you knew Romany, you might understand it. The right...
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Spanish Rom
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Affiliation. Gypsies generally speak Romany, which is classified by linguists as...European Language Family. The varieties of Romany that the Rom speak are called the Vlach dialects. Vlach Romany has a conservative Indic basic vocabulary...
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Rominche
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Rominche ETHNONYMS: Romanies, Travelers, Traveller Gypsies Orientation The Rominche, Romanies, or Travelers are the Gypsies of Great Britain...languages spoken by the Rominche include Anglo-Romany, Romani, Shelta (Gammon), and "Cant...
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Gypsies
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...themselves as Roma. Their language, called Romany , belongs to the Indo-Iranian family...Bibliography: See G. Borrow, The Romany Rye (1857, new ed. 1949, repr. 1959...Gipsy Petulengro's autobiography, A Romany Life (1935); J. Yoors, The Gypsies...
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ROMANI
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
ROMANI, also Romany . 1. A member of the Romani community, c. 6–10m worldwide...500 people mainly in Wales, to Anglo-Romani , Angloromani , Anglo-Romany , or Romani English , spoken by some 80,000 around the country, not...
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Slovakia
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies
...census data registers 1.6 percent of the population as Romany (Gypsy), this figure is believed to be an underrepresentation, with some experts estimating as many as 500,000 Romany living in Slovakia. There are also small numbers of Czechs...
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Gitanos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...themselves "Rom.") Gitanos rarely intermarry with Spain's Romany-speaking Gypsies even when they live in the same quarter...lexical items show it to have been derived from a language akin to Romany (Romanes), the Language of the present-day Rom. Cal...
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