Para-Romani

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Para-Romani are various

Reflecting the northern Indian subcontinent origin (in regions that are today part of India and Pakistan) 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 (which is based on Estonian) and Erromintxela (which is based on Basque of the Basque region of Spain and France, separate from the Caló Iberian Romani language of Spain and Portugal based on the Romance languages of Iberia).

The phenomenon of Para-Romani languages is akin to

• Armenian-based
  • Lomavren language
• Germanic-based
  • Angloromani
  • Scottish Cant
  • Scandoromani
  • Sinti-Manouche (moving from a Romani variant to being Para-Romani)^[3]
• Greek-based
  • Romano-Greek
• Romance-based
  • Caló
  • Manouche (moving from a Romani variant to being Para-Romani)^[4]
• Slavic-based
  • †Bohemian Romani (which was moving towards being a Para-Romani variety prior to extinction)
  • Romano-Serbian
• Persian-based^[5]
  • Afghanistan Gorbat
  • Persian Romani
  • Magati

Based on non-Indo European languages

• Finnic-based
  • Laiuse Romani (Estonian
    -based)
• Turkic-based
  • Romano-Turkish (Turkish-based)^[6]
  • Crimean-Romani (Crimean Tatar-based)^[7]
  • Kurbetcha
    (Cypriot Turkish-based)
• Basque-based
  • Erromintxela

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