Back Finna-Cigana lingvo Esperanto Suomen romanikieli Finnish Romani finlandais French Yaren Finnish Kalo Hausa Kalo-finski romski jezik Croatian Lingua kalò della Finlandia Italian Калофински ромски јазик Macedonian फिनिश कालो भासा NEW Kalo finsk romani NN Kaalen kieli OLO
| Kalo | |
|---|---|
| kaalengo tšimb | |
| Native to | Finland, Sweden |
Native speakers | 10,000 in Finland (2001 census)[1] 1,700 in Sweden (2009)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rmf |
| Glottolog | kalo1256 |
Kalo, Kàlo or the Finnish Romani language (Kalo Finnish Romani: kaalengo tšimb[2]) is a variety of the Romani language spoken by the Kaale subgroup of the Romani people in Finland and Sweden. The language is related to but not mutually intelligible with Scandoromani or Angloromani.
Kalo has 6,000–10,000 speakers and many young people do not know the language. The majority of speakers are from older generations and about two-thirds of the Romani in Finland still speak the language. There have been some revival efforts. Dictionaries and grammar books have been produced and some universities offer Kalo as a course. It has some similarities to the Romani languages in Hungary, where stress is placed on the first syllable of the word. This may be related to the fact that both Finnish and Hungarian words have fixed word-initial stress, a feature that would have diffused to the Romani languages. Kalo has been taught in schools since the late 1980s, with some courses available as early as the 1970s.[3]
