Rumelian Romani

Rumelian Romani is a dialect of Southern Balkan Romani of strong Turkish pronunciation with Turkish and Greek loanwords, traditionally spoken by Muslim Romani people (Xoraxane) in the Balkans. It was historically spoken by Romanies in Ottoman Rumelia, especially by sedentary Romani people of various subgroups in Edirne in East Thrace^[1] First described by Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname in 1668, of the Muslim Roma in Gümülcine, and later by William Marsden in 1785 and by Alexandros Georgios Paspatis (Paspati), a scholar of the Romani language in 1870.^[2][3] This Romani dialect is almost extinct in East Thrace, but still spoken by Muslim Roma in West Thrace and some other parts of the Balkans.^[4]

Rumelian Romani
Native to	former Ottoman Rumelia
Ethnicity	Muslim Roma
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Romani Balkan Southern Rumelian Romani
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	pasp1238