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Rumelian Romani is a dialect of Southern Romani of strong Turkish pronunciation with Turkish and Greek loanwords, once was spoken by the Turkish-Muslim Roma (Xoraxane) in Ottoman Rumelia, especially by the Sedentary Rumelian Romani people of various groups in Edirne in East Thrace[1] First described by Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname in 1668, of the Muslim Roma in Gümülcine, and later by William Marsden in 1785 and by Alexandros Georgios Paspatis (Paspati), a scholar of the Romani language in 1870.[2][3] The Greek Doctor A. G. Paspati made also the statemant in his Book, that Turks married often Roma Woman.[4] This Romani dialect is almost extinct in Turkey, but still spoken by Muslim Roma in Western Thrace today.[5]

Rumelian Romani
Native to	former Ottoman Rumelia
Ethnicity	Muslim Romani people
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Zone Romani Rumelian Romani
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rmn
Glottolog	balk1252

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