Carpathian Romani

Carpathian Romani, also known as Central Romani or Romungro Romani, is a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken from southern Poland to Hungary, and from eastern Austria to Ukraine.

Carpathian Romani
Central Romani
Native to	Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Ukraine, Slovenia
Native speakers	150,000 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine (2001 & 2011 censuses)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Romani Carpathian Romani
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rmc
Glottolog	carp1235
ELP	Carpathian Romani

North Central Romani is one of a dozen major dialect groups within Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Europe. The North 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 North 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^[2] uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras^[3]):

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[4]
Southern Central	Romungro	Hungary
	Roman	Austria
	Vend	Hungary, Slovenia

See also

• Languages of Poland
• Languages of Hungary
• Languages of Austria
• Languages of Ukraine