Scandoromani

Scandoromani is a Para-Romani dialect spoken by the Romanisael, a subgroup of the Romani people in Norway (c. 100–150 elderly Scandoromani speakers), and Sweden.

Subforms are referred to as:

• The Norwegian Romani language or Traveller Norwegian (, lit. 'Traveller's language'), Norwegian: ' or ' (Norwegian Romani), in Norway (the Romani language of the Norwegian Roma is referred to as ' in Norwegian);
• The Swedish Romani language or Tavringer Romani, Traveller Swedish or Tattare, Swedish: ' (Swedish Romani), in Sweden;
• Traveller Danish <abbr>†</abbr> in Denmark.

Like Angloromani in Britain and Caló in Spain, Scandoromani draws upon a vocabulary of inflected Romani. Much of the original Romani grammar, however, has been lost to the users, and they now communicate in Swedish or Norwegian 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- () or kj- ( alt. ) to represent the Romani č and čh . Some examples of Scandoromani variant spellings are: (S) / (N) 'knife'; (S) / (N) 'horse'.

See also

• Finnish Kalo language
• Para-Romani

Notes

References

Suggested further reading

• (A lexicon and grammatical overview of Tavringer Romani; includes several Traveller song texts in extenso)

External links

• Norwegian Romani Dictionary
• Examples of Tavringer Romani text from the websites of the Swedish Parliament and the Swedish Language Council