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Romani people (Czech: Romové, commonly known as Gypsies Czech: Cikáni) are an ethnic minority in the Czech Republic, currently making up around 2% of the population. Originally migrants from North Western India sometime between the 6th and 11th centuries, they have long had a presence in the region.
In the Czech areas of the country, 90% of native Romani were killed during the war; the Romani in modern-day Czech Republic are mostly post-war immigrants from Slovakia or Hungary and their descendants.
Gypsy. According to the different sources there are about 8-15 millions of Gypsies in the world and approximately 5-6 millions of Gypsies in Europe. Two sources of information about the size and the structure of Gypsy population exist in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic: population censuses and records
A medieval legend about a "gypsy" blacksmith who made nails for crucifixions spread throughout Europe. Other ancient accounts note that "gypsies" were musicians, for example in the Turkish army. The first reference to Roms in the region that is now Czechoslovakia dates to the fifteenth Century.
Šebková and Žlnayová, while describing Slovak Romani, argues that Romani is a free word order language [25] and that it allows for theme-rheme structure, similarly to Czech, and that in some Romani dialects in East Slovakia, there is a tendency to put a verb at the end of a sentence. However, Matras describes it further. [78]
20 lis 2018 · The 1952 edition of the Dictionary of the Czech Language defines “gypsy” as follows: “gypsy [with a small “g”]—a member of a wandering nation, a symbol of mendacity, theft, wandering,…jokers, liars, impostors and cheaters.”
The Gypsies entered the Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak portion of the Arpad Hungarian kingdom during the late Middle Ages. The independent Bohemian or Czech state consisted of Bohemia, Moravia, and later Silesia and Lusatia.
