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Romani people (Gypsies) in Chicago are an ethnic group in the Chicago area. Around 5,000 to 10,000 Roma reside in the Chicago area. [1] Romani people first came to Chicago in the 1880s. In 2023, the Romani flag was raised for International Romani Day in Chicago.
Apr 26, 2023 · Romani is an Indo-European language, belonging to the Indic subbranch which includes Sanskrit and Hindi. Because of the Romani diaspora throughout Europe and West Asia, it developed in close contact with European and Iranian languages.
- Arienne King
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Although Romani is used mainly as an oral language, some Roma do write in Romani. It is written mainly in the Latin alphabet, and also to some extent in the Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Devanagari alphabets. Romani was first written during the 16th century, when word lists were produced by non-Romani scholars such as Andrew Borde.
The Roma first came to Chicago during the large waves of Southern and Eastern European immigration to the United States in the 1880s until World War I. Approximately 5,000 to 10,000 Romani people live in the Chicago area.
The Romanian Mission of Chicago was formed in 1990 to help the Romanian people recover from the collapse of the communist regime. Teams of volunteers collected food, clothes, medical supplies, and educational materials to help rebuild churches, clinics, and schools in Romania.
Apr 10, 2019 · The social circumstances of language contact after the exodus from Greece became much more dire, as Roma were often the targets of Ottoman and Balkan slave trades. Kalderash Romani, a sub-dialect of Vlax, contains noticeable Romanian influence, resulting from the five hundred years during which the Roma were enslaved by boyars and monasteries.
