Speakers of the Romani language usually refer to the language as rromani ćhib "the Romani language" or romanes (adverb) "in a Rom way". This derives from the Romani word rom, meaning either "a member of the (Romani) group" or

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In the 18th century, it was shown by comparative studies that Romani belongs to the Indo-European language family. In 1763 Vályi István, a Calvinist pastor from Satu Mare in Transylvania, was the first to notice the similarity between Romani and Indo-Aryanby

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The first attestation of Romani is from 1542 AD in western Europe. The earlier history of the Romani language is completely undocumented, and is understood primarily

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Today's dialects of Romani are differentiated by the vocabulary accumulated since their departure from Anatolia,

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The language is recognized as a minority language in many countries. At present the only places in the world where Romani is employed as an official language are the Republic of Kosovo (only regionally, not nationally) and the Šuto Orizari Municipalitywithin

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Historically, Romani was an exclusively unwritten language; for example, Slovak Romani's orthography was codified only in 1971.
The overwhelming

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Romani is the only Indo-Aryan language spoken almost exclusively in Europe (apart from emigrant populations).
The most concentrated

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