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  1. 2 days ago · Most Romani speak one of several dialects of the Romani language, [314] an Indo-Aryan language, with roots in Sanskrit. They also often speak the languages of the countries they live in. Typically, they also incorporate loanwords and calques into Romani from the languages of those countries and especially words for terms that the Romani ...

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  3. 2 days ago · Romani people by sub-group. Romani diaspora by country. WikiProject. v. t. e. Roma, traditionally Țigani (often called "Gypsies" though this term is typically considered a slur), constitute one of Romania 's largest minorities. According to the 2011 census, their number was 621,573 people or 3.3% of the total population, being the second ...

  4. 5 days ago · Related: The World’s Oldest Languages. Romani: Language of the Roma Community. The Roma people, often referred to as “Gypsies” (though this term is considered derogatory by many), form one of the largest ethnic minorities. It is estimated that between 500,000 and 2 million Roma live, though official census figures vary.

  5. 5 days ago · This group then took to traveling the world, adopting words, cultural customs, and religious beliefs from the people they encountered. Romani authors Hristo Kyuchukov and Ian Hancock explain why Gypsy is a scornful name and why they prefer to be called Romanies.

  6. 1 day ago · Yet the Romanians also possessed qualities that set them apart from their neighbours and drew them westward: they spoke a language derived from Latin, and they recognized the Romans as their ancestors.

  7. 1 day ago · Both the Latin roots of the Romanian language and the Eastern Orthodox faith to which most Romanians adhere emerged from the mixture of these two cultures. From the arrival of the Huns in the 5th century until the emergence of the principalities of Walachia and Moldavia in the 14th century, the Romanian people virtually disappeared from written ...

  8. 4 days ago · Although all Indo-European languages descend from a common ancestor called Proto-Indo-European, the kinship between the subfamilies or branches (large groups of more closely related languages within the language family), that descend from other more recent proto-languages, is not the same because there are subfamilies that are closer or further ...

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