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Language code: rom

Technical information about ISO 639 language code rom

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The table below provides technical details for the Romany language, designated by the rom code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

rom

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

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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