22 Facts About Romani language

Speakers of the Romani language usually refer to the language as "the Romani language" or "in a Rom way".

Research into the way the Romani language dialects branched out was started in 1872 by the Slavicist Franz Miklosich in a series of essays.

In terms of its grammatical structures, Romani is conservative in maintaining almost intact the Middle Indo-Aryan present-tense person concord markers, and in maintaining consonantal endings for nominal case – both features that have been eroded in most other modern Indo-Aryan languages.

The earlier history of the Romani language is completely undocumented, and is understood primarily through comparative linguistic evidence.

Linguistic evaluation carried out in the nineteenth century by Pott and Miklosich showed the Romani language to be a New Indo-Aryan language, not a Middle Indo-Aryan, establishing that the ancestors of the Romani could not have left India significantly earlier than AD 1000.

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The latest territory where Romani language is thought to have been spoken as a mostly unitary linguistic variety is the Byzantine Empire, between the 10th and the 13th centuries.

The Romani language arrived in Europe and afterwards spread to the other continents.

The great distances between the scattered Romani language groups led to the development of local community distinctions.

Today, Romani language is spoken by small groups in 42 European countries.

Today's dialects of Romani language are differentiated by the vocabulary accumulated since their departure from Anatolia, as well as through divergent phonemic evolution and grammatical features.

Romani language's conclusion is that dialect differences formed in situ, and not as a result of different waves of migration.

At present the only places in the world where Romani is employed as an official language are the Republic of Kosovo and the Suto Orizari Municipality within the administrative borders of Skopje, North Macedonia's capital.

Standardized form of Romani is used in Serbia, and in Serbia's autonomous province of Vojvodina, Romani is one of the officially recognized languages of minorities having its own radio stations and news broadcasts.

Romani language teaches a purified, mildly prescriptive language, choosing the original Indo-Aryan words and grammatical elements from various dialects.

Romani language is used on the internet, in some local media, and in some countries as a medium of instruction.

Historically, Romani was an exclusively unwritten language; for example, Slovak Romani's orthography was codified only in 1971.

General Romani is an unusual language, in having two classes of nominals, based on the historic origin of the word, that have a completely different morphology.

Similarly to nominals, verbs in Romani language belong to several classes, but unlike nominals, these are not based on historical origin.

Romani language verb has three persons and two numbers, singular and plural.

Romani language tenses are, not exclusively, present tense, future tense, two past tenses, present or past conditional and present imperative.

Sebkova and Zlnayova, while describing Slovak Romani, argues that Romani is a free word order language and that it allows for theme-rheme structure, similarly to Czech, and that in some Romani dialects in East Slovakia, there is a tendency to put a verb at the end of a sentence.

Romani language has lent several words to English such as pal and nark "informant".