Scandoromani

Scandoromani
Native to	Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Native speakers	c. 100–150 (2014)^[1] Speakers mostly elderly. More people speak Swedish with some Roma vocabulary.^[1]
Language family	Para-Romani, mixed Romani–Scandinavian
Official status
Official language in	recognised minority language in Norway (1993) Sweden (1999)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `rmg` – Traveller Norwegian `rmu` – Tavringer Romani (Sweden) `rmd` – Traveller Danish
Glottolog	`trav1236` Norwegian `tavr1235` Swedish `trav1237` Danish
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Like Angloromani in Britain and Caló in Spain, Scandoromani draws upon a (now extinct) vocabulary of inflected Romani. Much of the original Romani grammar, however, has been lost to the users, and they now communicate in SwedishorNorwegian grammar.

There is no standardised form of Scandoromani, so variations exist in vocabulary, pronunciation, and usage, depending on the speaker. In print, Scandoromani words are often written with Swedish (S) or Norwegian (N) letters (ä, æ, ø, å) and letter combinations to represent Romani sounds, e.g., tj- (/ɕ/) or kj- (/ç/ alt. /tʃ/) to represent the Romani č /tʃ/ and čh /tʃʰ/. Some examples of Scandoromani variant spellings are: tjuro^[7] (S) / kjuro^[2] (N) 'knife'; gräj^[7] (S) / grei^[2] (N) 'horse'.

^ ^a ^b ^c Carling, Lindell & Ambrazaitis (2014:5)

^ ^a ^b ^c Karlsen, Ludvig. "Tavringens Rakripa: Romanifolkets Ordbok". Landsorganisasjonen for Romanifolket (in Norwegian and Traveller Norwegian). Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved November 18, 2008.

^ "Traveller Norwegian in the Language Cloud". Ethnologue. Retrieved September 3, 2019.

^ "Tavringer Romani in the Language Cloud". Ethnologue. Retrieved September 3, 2019.

^ "Tavringer Romani". LLOW Language Server. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved January 26, 2022.

^ "Traveller Danish". Ethnologue. Retrieved September 3, 2019.

^ ^a ^b Resande Folkets Riksorganisation (2006)

Carling, Gerd; Lindell, Lenny; Ambrazaitis, Gilbert (2014), Scandoromani: Remnants of a Mixed Language, Leiden: Brill, ISBN 9789004266445

Resande Folkets Riksorganisation (2006), Ordlista i resandespråket romani (in Swedish and Traveller Norwegian) (2nd ed.), Malmö: Föreningen Resande Folkets Riksorganisation, ISBN 91-631-9668-9

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Hancock, Ian (1992). "The social and linguistic development of Scandoromani". In Håkon Jahr, Ernst (ed.). Language Contact: Theoretical and Empirical Studies. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 37–52. ISBN 3-11-012802-0.
Iversen, Ragnvald (1945). The Rodi (Rotwelsch) in Norway. Secret languages in Norway. Oslo: I Kommisjon Hos Jacob Dybwad.
Karlsen, Ludvig (1993). Romani-folkets ordbok : [tavringens rakripa : de reisendes språk : romani-norsk-engelsk] (in Traveller Norwegian, Norwegian, and English). Oslo. ISBN 8299236312.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Lindell, Lenny [in Swedish]; Thorbjörnsson-Djerf, Kenth (2008). Carling, Gerd (ed.). Ordbok över svensk romani: Resandefolkets språk och sånger (in Swedish). Stockholm: Podium. ISBN 978-91-89196-43-8. (A lexicon and grammatical overview of Tavringer Romani; includes several Traveller song texts in extenso)
Miskow, Johan; Brøndal, Viggo (1923). "Sigøjnersprog i Danmark" (PDF). Danske Studier (in Danish): 97–145.
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