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Erromintxela is the distinctive language of a group of Roma living in the Basque Country, who also go by the name Erromintxela.
It is sometimes called Basque Caló or Errumantxela in English language; caló vasco, romaní vasco, or errominchela in Spanish
language; and euskado-rromani or euskado-romani in French. Although detailed accounts of the language date to the end of the
19th century, linguistic research only began in the 1990s. Erromintxela is a mixed language, deriving most of its vocabulary
from Kalderash Romani but using Basque grammar, similar to the way the Angloromani language of the Roma in England mixes Romani
vocabulary and English grammar. The development of this mixed language was facilitated by the unusually deep integration of
the Erromintxela people into Basque society and the resultant bilingualism in Basque. The language is in decline; most of
the perhaps one thousand remaining speakers live on the coast of Labourd and in the mountainous regions of Soule, Navarre,
Gipuzkoa and Biscay. The Erromintxela are the descendants of a 15th-century wave of Kalderash Roma who entered the Basque
Country via France. Both ethnically and linguistically, they are distinct from the Caló-speaking Romani people in Spain and
the Cascarot Romani people of the Northern Basque Country. |
Names (more)[ca] Caló basc[de] Erromintxela [en] Erromintxela language [eu] Erromintxel [fr] Erromintxela [hr] Erromintxela jezik [ko] 에로민첼라어 [oc] Erromintxela [ru] Эрроминчела [es] Erromintxela |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : emxLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/emxhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:emx More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: emxFreebase ISO 639-3 : emx GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |