Norwegian, Traveller

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A language of Norway

ISO 639-3
rmg
Alternate Names
Norwegian Traveller, Rodi, Scandoromani
User Population

100 (Carling et al 2014).

Location

Sør-Trøndelag county: south of Trondheim.

Language Status

8a (Moribund).

Classification
Mixed language, Norwegian-Romani
Dialects

None known. Based on Norwegian [nor] with heavy lexical borrowing from Northern Romani varieties and German Rotwelsch [rmd]. Not intelligible with Angloromani [rme].

Language Use

Active use (1997). Older adults only. Shifted to Norwegian [nor].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Norwegian, Traveller
Other Comments

Spoken by the Fanter, who are not Roma, but intermarried with Roma and Yeniche (German Travellers). Romani influence from speakers descended from the first diaspora from India. Roma people were abandoned on the coast of Norway from British ships from 1544 onwards.