Vlax Romani
Spoken in	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Albania, Colombia,[citation needed] Hungary and 21 other states worldwide
Total speakers	1.5 million
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Zone Romani Vlax Romani
Official status
Official language in	Officially-recognised minority language in Hungary, Romania and Serbia
Regulated by	No official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	rom
ISO 639-3	rmy
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Vlax Romani is a dialect of the Romani language. Vlax Romani varieties are spoken mainly in Southeastern Europe by Romani people^[1]. Vlax Romani can also be referred to as an independent language^[2] or as one dialect of the Romani language. Vlax Romani is the most widely-spoken dialect subgroup of the Romani language worldwide. Most Vlax Romani speakers live in Bosnia-Herzegovina (400,000) followed by Romania (241,617), Colombia (79,000)^[3] and Albania (60,000).

Contents 1 Classification 2 Writing systems 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Classification

Vlax Romani is classified in two groups - Vlax I, or Northern Vlax (including Kalderash and Lovari), and Vlax II, or Southern Vlax.^[1] Vlax Romani tends to be mutually intelligible with some dialects belonging to other dialect subgroups, mostly of Balkan Romani and Carpathian Romani.

[edit] Writing systems

Vlax Romani is written using the Romani orthography, which is a Latin-based alphabet with several additional characters. In the area of former Soviet Union it is written also with the Cyrillic alphabet.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Vlax Romani entry at Ethnologue