Welsh-Romany language

Welsh-Romany language

language
familycolor=Indo-European
name=Welsh Romany
nativename=Romnimus
states=Wales (United Kingdom)
speakers=Probably extinct as a first language.
fam2=Indo-Iranian
fam3=Indo-Aryan
fam4=Central Zone
fam5=Romany
iso2=rom|iso3=rmw

Welsh Romany (or "Welsh Romani") is a variety of the Romany language which was spoken fluently in Wales until at least 1950.Price, Glanville (2000) "Languages in Britain and Ireland", Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.] It was spoken by the Kale group of the Roma people who arrived in Britain during the 15th century. The first record of Gypsies in Wales comes from the 16th century.

The majority of the vocabulary is of Indo-Aryan origin but there are a number of loanwords from other languages. Welsh loanwords include "melanō" ("yellow", from "melyn"), "grīga" ("heather", from "grug") and "kraŋka" ("crab", from "cranc"). There are also English loanwords such as "vlija" ("village"), "spīdra" ("spider") and "bråmla" ("bramble"). [John Sampson (1926) "The dialect of the Gypsies of Wales, being the older form of British Romani preserved in the speech of the clan of Abram Wood", Oxford University Press, London.]

References

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rmw Welsh Romany entry at Ethnologue]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nova/1245/manfri.html Welsh Romany word list]
* [http://www.valleystream.co.uk/romhome.htm Romani Cymru]


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