Baltic Romani

Not to be confused with Baltic languages.
Baltic Romani
Native to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Estonia, Finland
Native speakers
30,000 in Poland (no date);[1] 20,000 in other countries (1995–2001)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
rml  Baltic Romani
rmf  Finnish Kalo
Glottolog balt1257  (Baltic Romani)[3]
kalo1256  (Finnish Kalo)[4]

Baltic Romani is group of dialects of the Romani language spoken in the Baltic states and adjoining regions of Poland and Russia. Half of the speakers live in Poland.

Dialects

Dialects are as follows ('CL' stands for the main contact language):

References

  1. Baltic Romani at Ethnologue (11th ed., 1988).
  2. Baltic Romani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Finnish Kalo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Baltic Romani". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Finnish Kalo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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