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![]() Two Yenish in Muotathal, Switzerland, c. 1890 | |
Total population | |
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c. 700,000[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
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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, 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.[3][4][5][6]
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