Carpathian Romani, also known as Central Romani, is a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken in the eastern Czech Republic, southern Poland, Slovakia, eastern Austria, eastern Slovenia, northeastern Croatia, Hungary, and northwestern Romania.
Central Romani is one of a dozen major dialect groups within Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Europe. The Central dialects of Romani are traditionally spoken by some subethnic groups of the Romani people in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia (with the exception of its southwestern and south-central regions), southeastern Poland, the Transcarpathia province of Ukraine, and parts of Romanian Transylvania. There are also established outmigrant communities of Central Romani speakers in the United States, and recent outmigrant communities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, and some other Western European countries.
Dialects Elšík uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras):
Sub-group Dialect Modern place Northern Central Bohemian Czech Republic (extinct later after Porajmos) West Slovak Slovakia East Slovak Slovakia, Czech Republic South Polish Poland Gurvari Gurvari Hungary Southern Central Romungro Hungary Roman Austria Vend Hungary, Slovenia
See also Languages of Poland Languages of Hungary Languages of Austria Languages of Ukraine
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