Baltic Romani
Baltic Romani is an Indo-European language spoken in Russia, Poland, Belarus, and Lithuania, by about 50 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Baltic Romani is a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken in the Baltic states and adjoining regions of Finland, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Half of Baltic Romani speakers live in Poland. Baltic Romani came from the Central Romani dialect, which branches off into other dialects. There are a total of around 31,500 users in all countries.
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Words in Baltic Romani
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| father | daad | |
| person | manuS* | |
| name | lav* | |
| eye | yakh* | |
| ear | kan* | |
| nose | nakh* | |
| tooth | dand* | |
| tongue | Cib* | |
| hand | r3So* | |
| blood | rat* | |
| bone | kukalo* | |
| skin | c3pa* | |
| knee | Cang* | |
| breast | kol3n* | |
| liver | buko* | |
| water | pani | |
| fire | yag* | |
| sun | kham* | |
| star | Cergh3n* | |
| stone | bar* | |
| mountain | b3rga* | |
| tree | kaSt* | |
| leaf | patrin* | |
| night | rat* | |
| dog | jukel* | |
| fish | maCho* | |
| louse | juv* | |
| one | yekh* | |
| two | duy* | |
| I | m3* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Balkan RomaniIndo-European63% alike
- Sinte-Manus RomaniIndo-European62% alike
- Welsh RomaniIndo-European61% alike
- Vlax RomaniIndo-European60% alike
- Central RomaniIndo-European58% alike
- Kalo Finnish RomaniIndo-European51% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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