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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani (/ˈrməni/ ROH-mə-nee or /ˈrɒməni/ ROM-ə-nee) and colloquially known as the Roma (sg.: Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin[71][72][73] who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Romani originated in the Indian subcontinent, in particular the region of present-day Rajasthan.[74] Their subsequent westward migration, possibly in waves, is now believed by historians to have occurred around 1000 CE.[75][76][77] Their original name is from the Sanskrit word डोम, ḍoma and means a member of the Dom caste of travelling musicians and dancers.[78][79] The Roma population moved west into the Ghaznavid Empire and later into the Byzantine Empire.[80][81] The Roma are thought to have arrived in Europe around the 13th to 14th century.[82] Although they are widely dispersed, their most concentrated populations are located in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Spain, and Turkey.

Not to be confused with Romans or Romanians.

Total population

1,000,000 estimated with Romani ancestry[a][5][6]

800,000 (0.4%)[7]

750,000–1,500,000 (1.9–3.7%)[8][9][10][11][12]

569,500–1,850,000 (3.4–8.32%)[13][14]

500,000–2,750,000 (3.8%)[9][15][16][17]

325,343[b]–750,000 (4.9–10.3%)[19][20]

309,632[c]–870,000 (3.21–8.8%)[21][22]

300,000–1,200,000 (0.21%)[23][24][25][26]

225,000 (0.4%)[29][9][30]

205,007[e]–825,000 (0.6%)[9]

147,604[f]–600,000 (2.1–8.2%)[31][32][9]

120,000–180,000 (0.3%)[33][9]

111,000–300,000 (2.7%)[34][35]

105,000 (0.1%)[9][36]

105,738[g]–490,000 (2.1–9.0%)[37][38][39]

100,000-140,000 (3.62%-5.06%)[40]

2,000–110,000[41][42]

46,433 (2.53%)[43]

50,000–100,000[9][44]

47,587[h]–260,000 (0.6%)[9][45]

52,000 (0.5%)[9][46][47]

40,000–50,000 (0.6%)[48]

36,000[i] (2%)[9][49]

32,000–40,000 (0.2%)[9]

17,049[e]–32,500 (0.1%)[9][50]

16,975[e]–35,000 (0.8%)[9][51]

15,850[52]

15,000–20,000[27]

12,778[e]–107,100 (3.0%)[9][53]

10,000–12,000 est. (0.2%)[54]

8,864[e]–58,000 (1.5%)[9][55]

2,649–8,000[27][56]

7,316[e]–47,500 (0.5%)[57]

7,193[e]–12,500 (0.6%)[9]

5,255–80,000[58][59]

5,251[e]–20,000 (3.7%)[60]

5,199[j]–40,370[e] (Romani speakers)–250,000 (1.9%)[61][62]

5,000–25,000[63]

3,246[9]

2,571[9]

5,500[64]

22,435[9]

1,200[9]

30,000[65]

1,250[66]

25,000–35,000[9]

In the English language, Romani people have long been known by the exonym Gypsies or Gipsies,[83] which some Roma consider a racial slur.[84][85] However, this is not always the case; for example, the term is actually preferred by most English and Welsh Romanies, and is used to refer to them in government documentation.[86][87][88] The attendees of the first World Romani Congress in 1971 unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Romani, including "Gypsy".[89]


Since the 19th century, some Romani have also migrated to the Americas. There are an estimated 1 million Roma in the United States[6] and between 800,000 and 1 million in Brazil, most of whose ancestors emigrated in the 19th century from eastern Europe. Brazilian Romani are mostly descendant from German/Italian Sinti (in the South/Southeast regions), and Roma and Calon people. Brazil also includes a notable Romani community descended from Sinti and Roma deportees from the Portuguese Empire during the Portuguese Inquisition.[90] In migrations since the late 19th century, Romani have also moved to other countries in South America and Canada. Though often confused with Irish Travellers and the Yenish people in western Europe, the Romani are culturally different.[91][92][93]


The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language with strong Balkan and Greek influence.[94] It is divided into several dialects, which together are estimated to have more than two million speakers.[95] Because the language has traditionally been oral, many Romani are native speakers of the dominant language in their country of residence, or else of mixed languages combining the dominant language with a dialect of Romani in varieties sometimes called para-Romani.[96]

Population and subgroups[edit]

Romani populations[edit]

There is no official or reliable count of the Romani populations worldwide.[97] Many Romani refuse to register their ethnic identity in official censuses for a variety of reasons, such as fear of discrimination.[98][99] Others are descendants of intermarriage with local populations, some who no longer identify only as Romani and some who do not identify as Romani at all. Then, too, some countries do not collect data by ethnicity.


Despite these challenges to getting an accurate picture of the Romani dispersal, there were an estimated 10 million in Europe (as of 2019),[100] although some Romani organizations have given earlier estimates as high as 14 million.[101][102] Significant Romani populations are found in the Balkans, in some central European states, in Spain, France, Russia and Ukraine. In the European Union, there are an estimated 6 million Romanis.[103]


Outside Europe there may be several million more Romani, in particular in the Middle East and the Americas.[104][105]

– 59.6%

Haplogroup H

– 29.8%

Haplogroup E

– 5.3%

Haplogroup I

– 3.%, of which the half are R1b and many are R1a

Haplogroup R

– 1.8%

Haplogroup G

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro – Islam is the dominant religion among the Roma.

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Bulgaria – In northwestern Bulgaria, in addition to Sofia and Kyustendil, Christianity is the dominant faith among the Romani, and a major conversion to Eastern Orthodox Christianity among the Romani has occurred. In southeastern Bulgaria, Islam is the dominant religion among the Romani, with a smaller section of the Romani declaring themselves as "Turks", continuing to mix ethnicity with Islam.

[247]

Contemporary art and culture[edit]

Romani contemporary art emerged at the climax of the process that began in Central and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, when the interpretation of the cultural practice of minorities was enabled by a paradigm shift, commonly referred to in specialist literature as the "cultural turn". The idea of the cultural turn was introduced; and this was also the time when the notion of cultural democracy became crystallized in the debates carried on at various public forums. Civil society gained strength, and civil politics appeared, which is a prerequisite for cultural democracy. This shift of attitude in scholarly circles derived from concerns specific not only to ethnicity but also to society, gender and class.[265]

All Romani speakers are , accustomed to borrowing words or phrases from a second language; this makes it difficult to communicate with Romanis from different countries

bilingual

Romani was traditionally a shared between extended family and a close-knit community. This has resulted in the inability to comprehend dialects from other countries, and is why Romani is sometimes considered to be several different languages.

language

There is no tradition or literary standard for Romani speakers to use as a guideline for their language use.

[269]

Most Romani speak one of several dialects of the Romani language,[266] 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 language does not have. Most of the Ciganos of Portugal, the Gitanos of Spain, the Romanichal of the UK, and Scandinavian Travellers have lost their knowledge of pure Romani, and speak the mixed languages Caló,[267] Angloromany, and Scandoromani, respectively. Most of the Romani language-speaking communities in these regions consist of later immigrants from eastern or central Europe.[268]


There are no concrete statistics for the number of Romani speakers, both in Europe and globally. However, a conservative estimate is 3.5 million speakers in Europe and a further 500,000 elsewhere,[268] though the actual number may be considerably higher. This makes Romani the second-largest minority language in Europe, behind Catalan.[268]


In regards to the diversity of dialects, Romani works in the same way as most other European languages.[269] Cross-dialect communication is dominated by the following features:

World Romani Congress

European Roma Rights Centre

[331]

Gypsy Lore Society

International Romani Union

multinational project

Decade of Roma Inclusion

(8 April)

International Romani Day

Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues

(Finland)

National Advisory Board on Romani Affairs

Nicolae Grigorescu: Gypsy from Boldu (1897), Art Museum of Iași

Nicolae Grigorescu: Gypsy from Boldu (1897), Art Museum of Iași

Fortune-telling scene, from Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847)

Fortune-telling scene, from Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847)

Mihály Munkácsy: Gypsy Family (1884, oil on canvas)

Mihály Munkácsy: Gypsy Family (1884, oil on canvas)

Vincent van Gogh: The Caravans – Gypsy Camp near Arles (1888, oil on canvas)

Vincent van Gogh: The Caravans – Gypsy Camp near Arles (1888, oil on canvas)

Paris Bordone: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1530. Elizabeth, at right, is shown as a Romani fortune-teller

Paris Bordone: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1530. Elizabeth, at right, is shown as a Romani fortune-teller

Maggie and the Gypsy, from George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Maggie and the Gypsy, from George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss (1860)

August von Pettenkofen: Gypsy Children (1885), Hermitage Museum

Many depictions of the Romani in literature and art present romanticized narratives of the mystical powers of fortune telling or as people who have an irascible or passionate temper paired with an indomitable love of freedom and a habit of criminality. The Romani were a popular subject in Venetian painting from the time of Giorgione at the start of the 16th century. The inclusion of such a figure adds an exotic oriental flavor to scenes. A Venetian Renaissance painting by Paris Bordone (c. 1530, Strasbourg) of the Holy Family in Egypt makes Elizabeth a Romani fortune-teller; the scene is otherwise located in a distinctly European landscape.[332]

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