Finnish Kalo language

Finnish Kalo
Fíntika Rómma
Native to	Finland, Sweden
Native speakers	10,000 in Finland (2001 census)^[1] 1,700 in Sweden (2009)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Zone Romani Northern Romani Northwestern Romani Finnish Kalo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`rmf`
Glottolog	`kalo1256`^[2]

Finnish Kalo (Fíntika Rómma) is a language of the Romani language family (a subgroup of Indo-European) spoken by Finnish Kale. The language is not inherently intelligible with Scandoromani or Angloromani.

References

1 2 Finnish Kalo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kalo Finnish Romani". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Romani language(s)

Romani varieties	Balkan Romani Baltic Romani Carpathian Romani Finnish Kalo Sinte Romani Vlax Romani Kalderash Romani Welsh Romani

Mixed varieties	Angloromani Bohemian Romani Caló Erromintxela Kurbet Laiuse Romani Lomavren Persian Romani Romano-Greek Romano-Serbian Scandoromani

Italics indicate extinct languages

Languages of Finland

Official languages	Finnish Swedish

Minority languages	Karelian Romani Finnish Kalo Sami Northern Inari Skolt Tatar Mishar Tatar

Sign languages	Finnish Sign Language Finland-Swedish Sign Language

Languages of Sweden

Official language	Swedish

Minority languages	Finnish Meänkieli Romani Finnish Kalo Sami Southern Ume Pite Lule Northern Scandoromani Yiddish

Unofficial dialects	Elfdalian Jamtlandic Gutnish Scanian Trøndersk Westrobothnian

Sign languages	Swedish Sign Language

See also: Official minority languages of Sweden

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