Total population | |
---|---|
100,000 (estimated) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Upper Egypt, Cairo and Alexandria | |
Languages | |
Domari, Egyptian Arabic | |
Religion | |
Islam (main religion), Christianity (1%)[1] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Romani people, Nawar people, Kawliya |
The Dom (دوم) people migrated to the territory of the present day Egypt from South Asia, particularly from Indian Subcontinent, and heavily intermixed with Egyptians. Scholars suggest that their Egyptian admixture later made them known around the world by the vernacular term Gypsies, deriving from the word Egyptian.[2][3]
Though some of the Dom people self-segregated themselves for centuries from the dominant culture of Egypt,[4] historically; Domari in Egypt have intermixed with Egyptians and participated at local musical entertainment at weddings, circumcisions and other celebrations, singing Egyptian traditional songs and dancing in return for money. The Dom people in Egypt or Roma Egyptians include subgroups like Nawar, and Ghagar or Ghaggar (غجر).[5][6]
The Dom in Egypt are Sunni Muslims, and apart from Egyptian Arabic, they also speak their own Domari language.[7]
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