Indo-European · ISO 639-3 rom
Romany Language романи
Romany is an Indo-European language spoken by about 46 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts.
Where Romany is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Romany language
Romany (романи) is spoken by about 46 million people. It belongs to the Indo-European language family.
Where is Romany spoken?
Romany is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Bulgaria (281,217) and Romania (241,617).
Share of the population that speaks Romany: Bulgaria 4.1% (281,217) and Romania 1.3% (241,617).
Romany is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Romany is written in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are English, Hindi, Spanish, Bengali, Urdu, Portuguese and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 rom.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.