Romany is the language of the Roma people,which was written down only recently.Because the Roma are nomadic and have moved all over the world,their language has developed in many different ways.It is sometimes hard for Roma in one part of the world to understand Roma ...
deeply fragmented and fractious people,only really unifying in the face of enmity from non-Gypsies,whom they call gadje.Today many Gypsy activists prefer to be called Roma,which comes from the Romany word for ’man’.But on my travels among them most still referred to themselves as Gypsies. ...
The International Romany Union is probably the most representative of the outfits that speak for Gypsies, but that is not saying a lot. Of the several hundred delegates who gathered at its congress, few were democratically elected; oddly, none came from Hungary, whose Gyps...
The International Romany Union is probably the most representative of the outfits that speak for Gypsies, but that is not saying a lot. Of the several hundred delegates who gathered at its congress, few were democratically elected; oddly, none came from Hungary, whose Gypsies are perhaps the wo...
The word gypsy or egypt is a british word for their arab colony. cisgan/zigan or Romany is an offensive word to romanian people. They are 15th century indians and being terrorist and dirty, backward, foreign people, they did not mix with white people like the jews from the middle east/...
fragmented and fractious people, only really unifying in the face of enmity from non-Gypsies, whom they call gadje. Today many Gypsy activists prefer to be called Roma, which comes from the Romany word for "man". But on my travels among them most still referred to themselves as Gypsies. ...