Scandinavian Romani

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Scandinavian Romani

Spoken in

NorwayNorway Norway Sweden
SwedenSweden 
speaker 100
Linguistic
classification

Mixed language from Romani and the central Scandinavian languages

Official status
Recognized minority /
regional language in
NorwayNorway Norway (1993) Sweden (1999)
SwedenSweden 
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2

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ISO 639-3

rmg / rmu

The Scandinavian Romani (also Romani rakripa , Norwegian Romani or Swedish Romani is called), a Scandinavian mixing language whose vocabulary a high proportion of Romani and word collection from Finnish and other European contact languages of the Roma has, while the syntax and morphology predominantly the type zentralskandinavischen Languages is. It thus belongs to the Para-Romani languages, such as English Anglo-Romani or Spanish Caló .

Romani rakripa is traditionally used by Roma in western Sweden and eastern Norway . In Sweden it has minority language status.

Word examples

German Romani Original language
one jikk Hindi ek
two dy Hindi do
seven efta Greek epta
big baro Hindi baṛā
Great buno Italian buono
book libri french livre
alone alonom english alone
Street stråtan dutch straat
wall vanta german  wall
flow river german  river
waiting bidra Scandinavian bide

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norwegian, Traveler | Ethnologue