Central Romani
Central Romani is an Indo-European language spoken in Russia, Türkiye, Germany, and United Kingdom, by about 150 thousand people.
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Carpathian Romani, also known as Central Romani, is a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken in the eastern Czech Republic, southern Poland, Slovakia, eastern Austria, eastern Slovenia, northeastern Croatia, Hungary, and northwestern Romania.
Central Romani is one of a dozen major dialect groups within Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Europe. The Central dialects of Romani are traditionally spoken by some subethnic groups of the Romani people 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 Central Romani speakers in the United States, and recent outmigrant communities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, and some other Western European countries.
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Words in Central Romani
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| father | dad | |
| person | jeni* | |
| name | alav* | |
| eye | Cek* | |
| ear | kan* | |
| nose | nak* | |
| tooth | dand* | |
| tongue | Cib* | |
| hand | va* | |
| blood | rat* | |
| bone | kokalo* | |
| skin | vuna* | |
| knee | Chang* | |
| breast | CuCi* | |
| liver | buke* | |
| water | pani | |
| fire | Ceg* | |
| sun | kham* | |
| star | Cerheni* | |
| stone | bar* | |
| mountain | barto* | |
| tree | kaSt* | |
| leaf | patrin* | |
| night | rat* | |
| dog | jukel* | |
| fish | maCo* | |
| louse | juv* | |
| one | Cek* | |
| two | duy* | |
| I | me* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Vlax RomaniIndo-European70% alike
- Balkan RomaniIndo-European65% alike
- Sinte-Manus RomaniIndo-European63% alike
- Baltic RomaniIndo-European58% alike
- Welsh RomaniIndo-European56% alike
- Kalo Finnish RomaniIndo-European52% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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