Interesting! I myself am Romanychal. We seem to know less of our history than the gadjo. Have you read any of the works of Ian Hancock?
ok here's the deal people. the language is rumness. i am a rumnechelle. chavy means child. rocker is speak. rumness is the language of the gypsies. and another thing we dont say that we are roma that is a gauga word. gauga is a word that means non gypsy. i'm pretty positive mandy means looks like.
"Rom," "Roma," "Romany," etc. are names often applied in English to the Gypsies, their language and their culture. As Itza says, these names are not always appreciated by the people themselves. In their language the words are not ethnonyms and simply mean "man" or "woman." Nonetheless, this is a common phenomenon. The German ethnonym deutsch is descended from the old proto-Germanic word thiuda, which simply means "the people." "Gypsy" itself is a poorly coined ethnonym. The Europeans once assumed that anyone with an unfamiliar appearance was from Egypt. Over the years, "Egyptian" was contracted into "Gypsy." This is similar to the misnaming of the Native Americans as "Indians." Both DNA analysis and comparative linguistics identify the Gypsies as having migrated out of India sometime between 500 and 1100CE. Their language is clearly descended from Sanskrit, and is closely related to Hindi and the other modern Indic languages of northern and western India.
I had wondered if this was the case, especially after reading the altered version "Gyptians" in His Dark Materials. I never realized that the "Roma" thing was not the actual name; I had a friend insist that this is what they should be called instead of Gypsies because Gypsy was "derogatory".
I am rumness so I know some things like yock: nose nock:eyes moey: face also my cousins said that if Obama dies than obiden will be president and there will be another holocost for both Romanys and gypsys witch i am both
My dad is scotch my mom is rumness and my grampa is rumness but my grandmothers mom wAs gogcha and her dad is rumness so she is half and half I am a rumnechelle and a traveler and a gotcha so I can rocker about this all day Long but the point is I just know half the rumness language I am a gypsy!!!!! In the second paragragh that fraggle rocker posted that is basiclay what my familiy is like but I live in America
That's ridiculous! Why do they say that??? There are so few Gypsies in America that most Americans have never met one and have no feelings about them at all, positive or negative. If anything, there's a slightly romantic, exotic aura about them. Gypsies are stereotyped as rebels, connivers and iconoclasts, and Americans like to think of themselves as the same kind of people. Very few Americans have even heard of the Irish Travellers. That TV show only lasted two seasons so everyone has forgotten about them. So when we say "Gypsy" we mean the Rom/Gypsy people whose ancestors came from India, not the Irish Catholic nomads.
Translate...I can but will no The Rumney language is a language that is not for everyone to learn. I apologize but you will not be able to get Google translate to help you out either. Meet rumney folks and maybe they will teach you...highly doubt it. I personally have never taught anyone except for my husband. Good luck in your endeavors....
