Romano-Greek language

Romano-Greek (also referred to as Hellenoromani; Greek: Ελληνο-ρομανική) is a nearly extinct mixed language (referred to as Para-Romani in Romani linguistics), spoken by the Romani people in Greece that arose from language contact between Romani speaking people and the Greek language. The language is suspected to be a secret language spoken in Thessaly and Central Greece Administrative Unit.[2] Typologically the language is structured on Greek with heavy lexical borrowing from Romani.[3] Related variants of this language are Dortika. Dortika is a secret language spoken mainly in Athens by traveling builders from Eurytania Prefecture. In both cases, the languages are most likely not native to their speakers.

Romano-Greek
Native toGreece
Native speakers
None[1]
30 use it as a secret language (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Dortika (in Eurytania)
  • Kaliarda (in Athens)
Language codes
ISO 639-3rge
Glottologroma1240

References
  1. Romano-Greek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Romano-Greek". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-02-10.
  3. Ethnologue


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