WELSH ROMANI LANGUAGE

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'Welsh Romani' is a variety of the Romani language which was spoken fluently in Wales until at least the 1950s. 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 Welsh such as ''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").

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★ 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

External links

★ Welsh Romani entry at Ethnologue

★ Welsh Romani word list

★ Romani Cymru