The Copts named them ⲣⲱⲙⲁ ( man or human, also these people there) in Coptic. It is believed that the remnants from the Indo-Greeks, the Atsinganos (Untouchables) left the Indian subcontinent as traders about Indo-Roman trade via the Silk Road through Byzantine Empire to Egypt at the time of the Migration period, where they live for centuries. He also noticed that they used similar words. He noticed that they were physically similar to the Roma he saw in Hungary. The origins of the Roma were not known until 1763, when a theology student, Stefan Vali, met Indian medical students. The theory is now supported by genetic evidence. The 18th-century idea on the Indian birth of the Roma is based on the likeness between Romani and the languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent. Ī camp with Welsh Romanies near Swansea, 1953. The Romani language is now an official language in many European countries under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. There are various groups of Roma: the Roma of East European birth the Sinti in Germany and the Manouches in France and Catalonia the Kaló in Spain, Ciganos in Portugal and Gitans of southern France the Romanichals of Britain and the Romanlar in Turkey. There are populations of Roma all over Europe, but the largest populations are in Eastern Europe and in the Balkans. Another study show's that many Romani Men from the Zargari tribe in Iran at Qazvin Province are born without a foreskin or a very short foreskin, a rare condition called Aposthia. The newborns of the Romani people from different countries, as a Indian study shows, have the blue-greyish so called Mongolian spot. It is also claimed the Roma people came from Sindh. View Romani Men share the R1a1 Y-DNA Haplogroup, who show a Brahmin Ancestry. Much DNA from the People of the Host Countrys where the roma live in flow also into the Romani people trough intermarriages Īnother gene study shows South Indian Tamil people DNA to Romani people, also the Y-DNA H in Roma community if from India. Ī DNA study by Indian and Estonian researchers shows that the Roma people's ancestors originate from Chandala (untouchables), Dalit and Shudra community of their ancestral homeland Gene flow from Turks into the Roma people population at the Ottoman Empire, happened through the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans and Byzantine Empire. The Roma are people that originally came via the Silk Road from the Indian subcontinent around the time of the Migration period and settled in Egypt. The old word "Chingar" is now rarely used. Some Roma, but not all consider "Gypsy" to be a slur. In English, they are often called Gypsies. The Roma are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group found mainly in Europe. Mainly Christianity and Islam, minorities practice Buddhism, Judaism and Bahá'í Faith
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