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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.
- c. 100–150 (2014), Speakers mostly elderly. More people speak Swedish with some Roma vocabulary.
Language. The Travellers in Sweden and Norway speak a form of Para-Romani referred to as Scandoromani. Many words of the Nordic Romani origin have survived in the Scandinavian languages, both in common speech and slang. Examples from Swedish: tjej, meaning 'girl' (originally slang, but now a more common alternative to the older flicka)
The language, an official minority language in Sweden and Norway, has a history in Scandinavia going back to the early 16th century. A mixed language of Romani and Scandinavian, it is spoken today by a vanishingly small population of mainly elderly people.
- Gerd Carling
- January 30, 2014
Phonologically and structurally, Scandoromani, or Tattarespråk, approximates almost completely to the Scandinavian host languages in the midst of which it exists. It is in its lexicon that it remains distinctively a Romani ethnolect.
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.
Jan 30, 2014 · 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...
investigation of official mixed minority languages in a larger Nordic context, a glossary, and two sample texts. With a focus on phonology and morphology, many comparisons to Swedish and Norwegian will be of value to the linguist working in Nordic languages, as well as the limited discussion of borrowings from Scandoromani into Swedish.
