Norwegian, Traveller
A language of Norway
| Population | No estimate available. |
| Alternate names | Norwegian Traveller, Rodi |
| Dialects | Based on Norwegian with heavy lexical borrowing from Northern Romani varieties and German Rotwelsch [rmd]. Not intelligible with Angloromani [rme]. |
| Classification | Mixed language, Norwegian-Romani |
| Language use | Active use (1997). |
| Comments | Spoken by the Fanter, who are not Gypsies, but have intermarried with Gypsies and Yeniche (German Travellers). Romani influence from speakers descended from the first diaspora from India. Romani people were abandoned on the coast of Norway from British ships from 1544 onwards. |
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