Norwegian, Traveller

RMG

vigorous

Alternate Names: Norwegian Traveller, Rodi

Dialects: None known. Based on Norwegian , with heavy lexical borrowing from Northern Romani varieties and German Rotwelsch ,. Not intelligible with Angloromani ,.

Genealogy:

Mixed language
Norwegian-Romani

Language Use: Active use (1997).

Nation of Origin: Norway

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