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AngloromaniLanguage
The AngloromaniLanguage is an EnglishGroupLanguage of the UnitedKingdom. SIL code: RME. ISO 639-2: gem. Population: 90,000 in Britain (1990 I. Hancock). Population total all countries: 170,000 to 270,000. Region: England, Wales, Scotland. Also spoken in Australia, South Africa, USA. Alternate names: ENGLISH ROMANI, ROMANI ENGLISH, ROMANICHAL, POGADI CHIB, POSH 'N' POSH. Comments: Angloromani not inherently intelligible with Welsh Romani, Traveller Swedish, Traveller Norwegian, or Traveller Danish. The grammar is basically English with heavy Romani lexical borrowing. Many dialects. It has been spoken in the United Kingdom for 500 years. 'The Romanichal population must be considered as being more actively determined to retain the ethnic language than some other British minorities.' (I. Hancock). Also spoken in: Australia. (Language name: ANGLOROMANI. Population: 5,000 in Australia. Alternate names: ROMANICHAL, ENGLISH ROMANI, POGADI CHIB. Comments: A variety of English with heavy Romani lexical borrowing. Also spoken in: USA. (Language name: ANGLOROMANI.) Population: 100,000 or fewer in North America. Alternate names: ENGLISH ROMANI, ROMANI ENGLISH, ROMANICHAL, ROMANIS. Comments: A variety of English with heavy Romani lexical borrowing. See main entry under United Kingdom.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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InstancesContentBearingPhysicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 EnglishGroupLanguageOf the 43 WestGermanicLanguages, five are classified as an EnglishGroupLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 EntityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 GermanicLanguageA GermanicLanguage is any of 58 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in the UnitedKingdom and northern and central Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 HumanLanguageThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 IndoEuropeanLanguageThere are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 LanguageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 LanguageFamilyA LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
 LinguisticExpressionThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 NaturalLanguageThe subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages.
 PhysicalAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 WestGermanicLanguage
Belongs to Class IndoEuropeanLanguage


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