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Even though genetic studies confirmed that the Romani people originated in India [210] [211] and their language is an Indo-Aryan language, [98] they have a long history of taking on different identities of various ethnic groups.
The absence of a written history has meant that the origin and early history of the Romani people was long an enigma. Indian origin was suggested on linguistic grounds as early as the late 18th century. [9] In the Roma language, "rom" means husband/man, while "romňi" means wife/woman, and thus "roma" means "husbands/people".
As time elapsed, the notion of "the gipsy/gypsy" altered to include other associated stereotypes such as nomadism and exoticism. [27] John Matthews in The World Atlas of Divination refer to gypsies as "Wise Women". [28] Colloquially, gipsy/gypsy is used refer to any person perceived by the speaker as fitting the gypsy stereotypes. [29]
Genetic findings in 2012 suggest the Romani originated in northwestern India and migrated as a group. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 27 ] According to a genetic study in 2012, the ancestors of present scheduled tribes and scheduled caste populations of northern India , traditionally referred to collectively as the Ḍoma , are the likely ancestral populations ...
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Despite often being incorrectly referred to as "Gypsies", [7] Irish Travellers are not genetically related to the Roma people, who are of Indo-Aryan origin. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Genetic analysis has shown Irish Travellers to be of Irish extraction, and that they likely diverged from the settled Irish population in the 1600s, probably during the time ...
Other Romani populations in the Middle East are the result of modern migrations from Europe. Also found in the Middle East are various groups of the Dom people, often identified as "gypsies." They are derived from a migration out of northwestern India beginning about 600 years earlier. [2] [3]
The term Gypsies in GRT refers to Romani people belonging to groups that have existed in Britain for centuries, such as English Gypsies (Romanichal) and Kale (Welsh Gypsies). [5] [3] They share a common origin in Roma populations which emigrated from India during the first millennium and arrived in Britain in the early 16th century.