The Manouches are a subgroup of Roma who have lived in France since at least the eighteenth century.[1] The term Manouche is the self-ascribed name of the French Sinti.[2] The word "manouche" means "man" or "human being" in the Romani language, and is closely cognate to the word for "man" in many modern Indian languages such as Hindi मनुष्य (manuṣya) and Bangla মানুষ (mānuṣa). Their Romani dialect, cognate to the one used by German Sinti, exhibits strong German influence.[3] They are nowadays primary French-speaking, though the dialect of French they use exhibits many linguistic peculiarities compared to standard French.[4]
Notable Manouches
References
- ^ Lie, Siv B. (2021). Django Generations. University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226810959.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-226-81100-0. S2CID 242616072.
- ^ Scheffel, David Z. (2015). "Bunescu, Ioana: Roma in Europe. The Politics of Collective Identity Formation". Anthropos. 110 (2): 606–607. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2015-2-606. ISSN 0257-9774.
- ^ Bakker, Peter; Ki︠u︡chukov, Khristo (2000). What is the Romani Language?. University of Hertfortshire Press. p. 58. ISBN 9781902806068.
- ^ Nahon, Peter (2024), "The French linguistic varieties of Gypsies and Travellers: an original diastratic variation perspective", Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 140 (1): 30-76, doi:10.1515/zrp-2024-0002
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