romTechnical information about ISO 639 language code rom
The table below provides technical details for the Romany language, designated by the rom code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Romany |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Balkan RomaniVlax RomaniCentral RomaniNorthern Romani |
| Related languages | DomariLomavrenHindiPunjabi |
| Key facts | Descends from Indo-Aryan migrants who left the Indian subcontinent roughly a millennium agoRetains a core vocabulary cognate with Sanskrit while displaying heavy borrowings from Greek, Slavic and other European languagesOnly major Indo-Aryan language whose native speech community has lived exclusively in Europe for centuriesDisplays complex verb morphology with object-clitic agreementWritten traditions are recent, but a rich oral storytelling and musical heritage persists across Romani communities. |
| Sample phrase | Sastipe, sar san? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
The Romany language, identified by the code rom, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.
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