Yenish people

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Yenish

Two Yenish in Muotathal, Switzerland, c. 1890
Total population
c. 700,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Germany,   Switzerland,  Austria,  France,  Netherlands
Germany	200,000[1]
Switzerland	30,000[2]
Languages
Yenish, German (Swiss German, Bavarian), French, DGS, DSGS, ÖGS, LSF

The Yenish (German: Jenische; French: Yéniche, Taïtch) are an itinerant group in Western Europe who live mostly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland,^[3] Luxembourg, Belgium, and parts of France, roughly centered on the Rhineland. A number of theories for the group's origins have been proposed, including that the Yenish descended from members of the marginalized and vagrant poor classes of society of the early modern period, before emerging as a distinct group by the early 19th century.^[4][5] Most of the Yenish became sedentary in the course of the mid-19th to 20th centuries.