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Scandoromani is a North Germanic based Para-Romani language. It is spoken by the Scandinavian Romanisæl Travellers, a Romani minority community, in Norway (c. 100–150 elderly speakers), and formerly in Sweden. Subforms are referred to as: Traveller Norwegian (tavringens rakripa, lit.
Gilbert Ambrazaitis. Scandoromani: Remnants of a Mixed Language is the first, comprehensive, international description of the language of the Swedish and Norwegian Romano, also labeled resande/reisende. The language, an official minority language in Sweden and Norway, has a history in Scandinavia going back to the early 16th century.
- Gerd Carling
- January 30, 2014
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Scandoromani—often mistakenly referred to as a “special vocabulary” (Matras 2002, 10)—is a mixed language. It almost completely lacks the pro-totypically Indo-Aryan inflectional system found in other Romani dialects, including Sinte or Kale.
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Jan 30, 2014 · This book is based on in-depth linguistic interviews with two native speakers of different families (one of whom is the co-author) as well as reviews of earlier sources on Scandoromani. The study...
Oct 5, 2021 · ants, or whether it actually reflects their idealised image of a Scandoromani language. Nonetheless, the comparison with other sources on Scandinavian Para-Romani allows at least some degree of contextualisation. Carling opens Chapter 1 (pp. 1–23) with the claim that the Nordic countries have populations known as “Travellers or Roma”.
