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At first I thought this was about a variant of the Romani people, due to having talked just a few days ago with an Italian guy who was half Jewish and half Roma

At first I thought this was about a variant of the Romani people, due to having talked just a few days ago with an Italian guy who was half Jewish and half Romani. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people We had a talk about the Romani, the discrimination against them, and some other interesting topics. I mentioned to him that, as a teenager, I had read a book titled Lavengro, a fictional work about a gypsy, by George Borrow. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavengro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavengro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Borrow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Borrow

skissane 3y ago
> At first I thought this was about a variant of the Romani people, due to having talked just a few days ago with an Italian guy who was half Jewish and half Romani. In the history of Europe, there were several of these nomadic/itinerant groups on the margins of society. They had distinct languages/cultures/origins, but occupied similar societal niches. Due to that similarity, there was a certain degree of interchange/movement/intermarriage between these groups. Romani language and culture originally comes from northern India; the Yenish spoke a dialect of German. However, that dialect included Romani loanwords, suggesting a history of interaction/intermarriage with Romani and/or absorption of Romani into their community. Their language also includes some Yiddish loanwords, suggesting a similar history of interaction with some Jewish people