Para-Romani
Para-Romani are various mixed languages of non-Indo-Aryan linguistic classification containing considerable admixture from the Romani language. They are spoken as the traditional vernacular of Romani communities, either in place of, or alongside, varieties of the Romani language. Some Para-Romani languages have no structural features of Romani at all, taking only the vocabulary from Romani.
Reflecting the Romani who as a dispersed people reside predominantly throughout Europe over the last thousand years—though with origins in the northern Indian Subcontinent, in regions which are today part of India and Pakistan—the linguistic makeup of most Para-Romani languages are based on Indo-European languages, except for Laiuse Romani and Erromintxela.
The phenomenon of Para-Romani languages is entirely different from Jewish languages which are spoken by different communities of the Jewish diaspora and are heavily influence by Hebrew, such as Yiddish among Ashkenazi Jews, Ladino among Sephardic Jews, or Yevanic, Italkian, various Judeo-Arabic languages, etc.Varieties
- Armenian-based
- *Lomavren language
- Germanic-based
- *Angloromani
- *Scottish Cant
- *Scandoromani
- *Sinti-Manouche
- Greek-based
- *Romano-Greek
- Romance-based
- *Caló
- Slavonic-based
- *†Bohemian Romani
- *Romano-Serbian
- Persian-based
- *Afghanistan Gorbat
- *Persian Romani
- *Magati
- Finnic-based
- *†Laiuse Romani
- Turkic-based
- *Crimean-Romani
- *Kurbetcha
- Basque-based
- *Erromintxela
