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Roma is the proper designation of gypsies, and their language is known as Romanes.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
Roma is the proper designation of gypsies, and their language is known as Romanes. Their origins are uncertain, but they seem to have a special connection to Romania, where perhaps as many as a million of them live. Around the countryside there they still enjoy their immemorial way of life, with traveling caravans and campsites and many children. It's a tribute to their determination to be themselves. Under Nazi influence the wartime Romanian government deported more than 25,000 of them to extermination camps. Probably as many as half a million of the Roma of central ...
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