Talk:Bohemian Romani
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[edit] Extinct?
Is that true, really? I think that there still are native speakers in the Czech Republic.
Yes, it is very likely that Bohemian Romani, as described in the article, really is an extinct language (the last known speaker died in 1970's according to p.c. from Hana Sebkova, a former specialist in Romani Studies at the Charles University, Prague). Nevertheless, there are 50 to 150 thousand speakers of Romani (of the 150 to 250 thousand Roma) in the Czech Republic today, the greater part of whom live in Bohemia: the historical group of Bohemian Roma must be distinguished from those Romani groups that live in Bohemia presently; the latter are post-World War II immigrants from Slovakia, who speak different Romani dialects. In case you have some evidence that there are still some speakers of the 'real' Bohemian Romani, I am eager to learn more about this: one never knows with the last speakers of a language... Viktor Elšík 14:49, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
