Rumelian Romani
Southern Romani dialect
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Rumelian Romani is a dialect of Southern Balkan Romani of strong Turkish pronunciation with Turkish and Greek loanwords, once was spoken by the Turkish-Muslim Roma (Xoraxane) in Ottoman Rumelia, especially by the Sedentary Rumelian Romani people of various groups 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 Turkey, but still spoken by Muslim Roma in Western Thrace today.[4]
| Rumelian Romani | |
|---|---|
| Native to | former Ottoman Rumelia |
| Ethnicity | Muslim Roma |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | pasp1238 |
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