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Central Romani is group of dialects of the Romani language

Romani language

Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy is any of several languages of the Romani people. They are Indic, sometimes classified in the "Central" or "Northwestern" zone, and sometimes treated as a branch of their own....

spoken from southern Poland to Hungary and from eastern Austria to Ukraine.

Dialects

The Central Romani dialects are split into two main groups, a northern and a southern group (CL stands for main contact language):

Northern branch
North Central Romani
North Central Romani is one of a dozen of major dialect groups within Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Europe. The North Central dialects of Romani are traditionally spoken by some subethnic groups of the Romani people in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia , southeastern Poland, the...

:
- Western sub-branch:
  - Bohemian Romani
    Bohemian Romani
    Bohemian Romani or Bohemian Romany is a dialect of Romani formerly spoken by the Romanies of Bohemia, the western part of today's Czech Republic...
  - Moravian Romani
  - West Slovak Romani (CL: Slovak
    Slovak language
    Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
    
    )
- Eastern sub-branch:
  - Central Slovak Romani
  - East Slovak Romani (CL: Slovak)
  - Southwestern Ukrainian Romani
  - South Polish Romani
Southern branch:
- Romungro Romani in Slovakia (CL: Slovak) and Hungary (CL: Hungarian
  Hungarian language
  Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
  
  )
- Vend Romani
  - Burgenland Romani in the Austrian Burgenland
    Burgenland
    Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east...
  - Hungarian Vend-Romani
  - Roman Romani in Austria (CL: German)

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