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 northern Indian subcontinent origin of the Romani people, who for the last millennium have resided in dispersed locations predominantly throughout Europe, the linguistic makeup of most Para-Romani languages is based on Indo-European languages, except for Laiuse Romani and Erromintxela.
The phenomenon of Para-Romani languages is akin to Jewish languages which are spoken by different communities of the Jewish diaspora and are heavily influenced by Hebrew, such as Yiddish among Ashkenazi Jews, Ladino among Sephardic Jews, or Yevanic, Italkian, various Judeo-Arabic languages, etc.
Varieties
Based on Indo-European languages
- Germanic-based
- *Angloromani
- *Scottish Cant
- *Scandoromani
- *Sinti-Manouche
- Greek-based
- *Romano-Greek
- Romance-based
- *Caló
- *Manouche
- Slavic-based
- *†Bohemian Romani
- *Romano-Serbian
Based on non-Indo European languages
- Finnic-based
- *†Laiuse Romani
- Turkic-based
- *Romano-Turkish
- *Crimean-Romani
- Basque-based
- *Erromintxela