Romani People Discussion

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The Romani are an Indo-Aryan population who are believed to originate from the Indian subcontinent in the Iron Age. This is evidenced by linguistic and genetic evidence, specifically the region of Rajasthan in northwestern India. It is believed the Roma people reached Anatolia and the Balkans around the 12th century from where they had left India 600 years earlier. As Romani groups did not chronicle their history or have oral accounts much of the early history is based on linguistic theory and only recently DNA. Romani also shares many linguistic features with Sanskrit, Hindi and Bengali including numbers.