Romani people in France

French Romanis
Total population
est. 500,000 – 1,200,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Alsace, Aquitaine, Île-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Lorraine, Midi-Pyrénées, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Bretagne
Languages
Romani languages
(Sinti-Manouche, Erromintxela, Kaló)
French,[2] Spanish
Religion
Christianity (Evangelicalism)
Related ethnic groups
Primarily other Roma
Manouches: Sinti
Gitans/French Caló: Spanish Caló, Portuguese Caló, Brazilian Caló
Roms: Balkan Roma
Erromintxela: Kalderash, Basques, Cascarots
Cascarots: Spanish Roma, Erromintxela, Basques

Romani people in France (French: Roms en France), generally known in spoken French as gitans, tsiganes or manouches, are an ethnic group that originated in Northern India. The exact number of Romani people in France is unknown; estimates vary from 500,000 to 1,200,000[clarification needed].[1]

  1. ^ a b "Situation of Roma in France at crisis proportions – report". EurActiv. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  2. ^ Nahon, Peter (2024), "The French linguistic varieties of Gypsies and Travellers: an original diastratic variation perspective", Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 140 (1): 30-76, doi:10.1515/zrp-2024-0002

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