Para-Romani

Para-Romani are non-Romani languages with considerable admixture from Romani (as with Yiddish or Ladino among Jews) spoken by Romani communities.^[1] Some Para-Romani languages have no structural features of Romani at all, taking only the vocabulary from Romani. The technical term in linguistics for such a language is a mixed language. Reflecting the linguistic makeup of Europe, most are based on Indo-European languages, except for Laiuse Romani, which is based on Estonian, and Erromintxela, which is based on Basque.

Varieties

Based on Indo-European languages

• Armenian-based
  • Lomavren language
• Germanic-based
  • Angloromani
  • Danish Rodi, Traveller Danish^[2]
  • Rodi language, Traveller Norwegian
  • Scandoromani language, Traveller Swedish
  • Sinti-Manouche
• Greek-based
  • Romano-Greek
• Romance-based
  • Caló
• Slavonic-based
  • †Bohemian Romani (which was moving towards being a Para-Romani variety prior to extinction)
  • Romano-Serbian
• Persian-based^[3]
  • Afghanistan Gorbat
  • Persian Romani
  • Magati

Based on non-Indo European languages

• Finnic-based
  • †Laiuse Romani (Estonian-based)
• Turkic-based
  • Crimean-Romani (Crimean Tatar-based)^[4]
  • Kurbetcha (Turkish-based)
• Basque-based
  • Erromintxela

References

1. Matras, Y. Romani: A Linguistic Introduction Cambridge University Press (2002) ISBN 0-521-63165-3
2. Traveller Danish Languages of the World, University of Graz. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
3. Persian-Romani (Mixed Language)
4. http://www.crimea.edu/crimea/etno/articles/plem/index.htm