| Population |
90,000 in United Kingdom (1990 I. Hancock). Population total all countries: 202,900. |
| Region |
England, Scotland, Wales. Also in Australia, South Africa, United States. |
| Alternate names |
English Romani, Pogadi Chib, Posh ‘N’ Posh, Romani English, Romanichal |
| Dialects |
Not inherently intelligible with Welsh Romani [rmw], Traveller Swedish [rmu], Traveller Norwegian [rmg], or Traveller Danish [rmd]. Grammar English with heavy Romani lexical borrowing. Many dialects. |
| Classification |
Mixed language, English-Romani |
| Language use |
Spoken in the United Kingdom for 500 years. “The Romanichal population must be considered as being more actively determined to retain the ethnic language than some other British minorities” (I. Hancock). |
