Norwegian, Traveller

A language of Norway

ISO 639: rmg
Alternate Names: Norwegian Traveller, Rodi, Scandoromani
Population: 100 (Carling et al 2014).
Location:: Sør-Trøndelag county: south of Trondheim.
Language Status: 8a (Moribund).
Classification: Mixed language, Norwegian-Romani
Dialects: None known. Based on Norwegian [nor] with heavy lexical borrowing from Northern Romani varieties and German Rotwelsch [rmd]. Not intelligible with Angloromani [rme].
Language Use: Active use (1997). Older adults only. Shifted to Norwegian [nor].
Other Comments: Spoken by the Fanter, who are not Roma, but intermarried with Roma and Yeniche (German Travellers). Romani influence from speakers descended from the first diaspora from India. Roma people were abandoned on the coast of Norway from British ships from 1544 onwards.

Location: Sør-Trøndelag county: south of Trondheim.