Langenesis

Indo-European family

Romani

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Romani (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → … → Shauraseni Prakrit → Proto-Romani → Romani.

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Speakers
2M (2,000,000)
ISO 639-3
rom

Language of the Roma, spoken across Europe and beyond, with a heavy Byzantine Greek layer acquired in Anatolia/the Balkans. ISO code is the Romani macrolanguage; speaker estimates range widely.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Indo-Aryanc. 1,800 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  4. Vedic Sanskritc. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
  5. Shauraseni Prakritc. 300 BCE – 600 CE
  6. Proto-Romanic. 500 CE – 1000 CE
  7. Romanic. 1000 CE – today

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