ISO 639-3 · romrom
Indo-European family · macrolanguage
Romani
Romani chib
Romani is a macrolanguage of the Central Indo-Aryan branch (Indo-European), spoken in Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Colombia and 12 more countries. Wikidata counts about 46 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “language of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
rom- Glottocode
roma1329- Family
- Indo-European
- UNESCO
- Definitely endangered
- Centre point
- 46.80, 21.70
- Wikipedia
- 109 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
16countries
3scripts
4levels in the tree
Definitely endangeredUNESCO level
Facts
| Name | Romani · Romani chib |
|---|---|
| Also called | Romany, Gypsy, Gipsy, romanes, Romani language |
| All speakers | 46,000,000 |
| Written in | Latin script, Cyrillic, Devanagari |
| Grammatical cases | 8 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
UNESCO: Definitely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Romani
The branches above Romani, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Albania11 languages in the indexAustria11 languages in the indexBosnia and Herzegovina8 languages in the indexColombia81 languages in the indexDenmark7 languages in the indexFinland14 languages in the indexGermany36 languages in the indexHungary10 languages in the indexMontenegro9 languages in the indexNorth Macedonia11 languages in the indexNorway17 languages in the indexPoland20 languages in the indexRomania18 languages in the indexSerbia18 languages in the indexSlovakia10 languages in the indexSweden15 languages in the index
Also spoken in Albania
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