Zargari (or Romāno) is a dialect of
Balkan Romani, spoken in
Zargar region (Abyek district) of the
Qazvin
Qazvin (; fa, قزوین, , also Romanization, Romanized as ''Qazvīn'', ''Qazwin'', ''Kazvin'', ''Kasvin'', ''Caspin'', ''Casbin'', ''Casbeen'', or ''Ghazvin'') is the largest city and capital of the Qazvin Province, Province of Qazvin in Iran. ...
Province of in
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
by the ethnic
Zargari people
The Zargari people are a Muslim Romani people ethnic group deriving from Zargar, Qazvin, Zargar, Iran and neighboring villages. They speak the Zargari Romani a distinct dialect of the Balkan Romani, most closely related to those of Rumelia. His ...
. The language can be found in surrounding regions as well. It is one of the only
Indo-Aryan languages still spoken in Iran, and is considered
endangered
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and in ...
. Zargari takes its name from the Persian word for "goldsmith" ( ''zargar'').
Vocabulary
* Eighteen= Oxdu
* for me= Miri
* for you= Diri
* Fish= mačo
* God=del
* horse=grast
* Fox= Jӕqqӕlis
* hand= vast
* Water= pani
* Night= Rati
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See also
*
Domari language
Domari is an endangered Indo-Aryan language, spoken by Dom people scattered across the Middle East and North Africa. The language is reported to be spoken as far north as Azerbaijan and as far south as central Sudan, in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pales ...
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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 ...
References
External links
*Hassan Rezai Baghbidi
The Zargari Language: An Endangered European Romani in IranMarushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2010. Migrations West to East in the Times of the Ottoman Empire: The Example of a Gypsy/Roma Group in Modern Iran. Anthropology of the Middle East 5 (1): p. 93–99.
European diaspora in Asia
Languages of Iran
Romani in Iran
Endangered languages
Dialects of Romani
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