Northern Romani is group of dialects of the
Romani language
Romani (; also Romany, Romanes , Roma; rom, rromani ćhib, links=no) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities. According to '' Ethnologue'', seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their ...
spoken in various
Northern Europe
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an,
Central Europe
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an and
Eastern Europe
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an countries.
The first grammatical outline of Romani was done on Sinti variety.
Dialects
Elšík
uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras
):
References
Romani in Europe
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