Romani language

Romani
Romani
Romany; Romanes; Roma;
rromani ćhib
Ethnicity	Romani
Native speakers	4.6 million (2015)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Indo-Aryan Romani; ; ; ;
Early form	Early Romani
Dialects	Balkan Romani (including Zargari Romani); Carpathian Romani; Northern Romani (including Kalo, Baltic Romani, Sinte Romani, Romnimus, Angloromani); Vlax Romani;
Official status
Recognised minority; language in	Austria; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Colombia; Finland; Germany; Hungary; Kosovo; Montenegro; North Macedonia; Norway; Poland; Romania; Russia; Serbia; Slovakia; Sweden; Ukraine;
Language codes
ISO 639-2	rom
ISO 639-3	rom – inclusive code; Individual codes:; rmn – Balkan Romani; rml – Baltic Romani; rmc – Carpathian Romani; rmf – Finnish Kalo; rmo – Sinte Romani; rmy – Vlax Romani; rmw – Welsh Romani; rmq – Spanish Romani
Glottolog	roma1329

Romani (/ˈrɒməni, ˈroʊ-/ ROM-ə-nee, ROH-; also Romanes /ˈrɒmənɪs/ ROM-ən-iss, Romany, Roma; Romani: rromani ćhib) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani people. The largest Romani dialects are Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers), Balkan Romani (600,000), and Sinte Romani (300,000). Some Romani communities speak mixed languages based on the surrounding language with retained Romani-derived vocabulary – these are known by linguists as Para-Romani varieties, rather than dialects of the Romani language itself.

The differences between the various varieties can be as large as, for example, the differences between the Slavic languages.