Romani languages are the languages spoken by the Roma people, commonly called Gypsies. The language is often called Romanes. The first Gospel to be translated into a Romani language was the Gospel of LukeEmbéo e Majaró Lucas by George Borrow
at the

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. into the

Caló language Caló (; ; ; ) is a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani. It is a mixed language (referred to as a Para-Romani language in Romani linguistics) based on Romance grammar, with an adstratum of Romani lexical items through language ...

, spoken in Spain and Portugal. It was translated by George Borrow. This was printed by the

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in 1837 and a revision was printed in 1872. There are portions, and selections of the Bible in many different forms of Roman
webpage listing different Romani Scriptures
The French Romani writer and pastor

Matéo Maximoff Matéo Maximoff (; 17 January 1917 – 24 November 1999) was a French writer and Evangelicalism, Evangelical pastor of Romani people, Romani ethnicity. His eleven books have been translated into fourteen languages. Born in Spain, he had parents who ...

translated the Bible into

Kalderash Romani Kalderash Romani is a group of Vlax dialects spoken by the Kalderash Romani, mainly in Romania. Its main contact language is Romanian. The Bible The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scripture ...

. The Psalms were first printed by the French Bible Society in 1984 and the New Testament was printed in 1995.

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Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

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