Kalderash Romani is a group of
Vlax
Vlax Romani is a dialect group of the Romani language. Vlax Romani varieties are spoken mainly in Southeastern Europe by the Romani people.Norbert Boretzky and Birgit Igla. Kommentierter Dialektatlas des Romani. Wiesbaden:
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dialects spoken by the
Kalderash Romani
Kalderash Romani is a group of Vlax dialects spoken by the Kalderash Romani, mainly in Romania. Its main contact language is Romanian.
The Bible was translated to Kalderash Romani by Matéo Maximoff
Matéo Maximoff (; 17 January 1917 – 24 No ...
, mainly in
Romania
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. Its main
contact language
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is
Romanian
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
*** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditiona ...
.
The Bible
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was translated to Kalderash Romani by
Matéo Maximoff
Matéo Maximoff (; 17 January 1917 – 24 November 1999) was a French writer and Evangelical pastor of Romani ethnicity. His eleven books have been translated into fourteen languages. Born in Spain, he had parents who had migrated from Russia and F ...
.
Orthography
References
Kalderash
Romani in Romania
Dialects of Romani
Languages of Romania
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