Lovari Knowpia

Lovari
Regions with significant populations
	Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Germany, Croatia, Serbia
Languages
	Vlax Romani
Religion
	Christianity (predominately Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity)
Related ethnic groups
	Other Romani peoples

Lovari ("horse-dealer", from Hungarian "ló", horse) is a subgroup of the Romani people, who speak their own dialect, influenced by Hungarian and West Slavic dialects. They live predominantly throughout Central Europe (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Germany)^[2] as well as in Southeastern Europe (Romania, Croatia, and northern Serbia).^[3]^[4]

Ethnology edit

The Lovari are a Romani people who speak a dialect influenced by Hungarian and West Slavic dialects. Their language is classified under Vlax Romani.^[5] The Lovari are further divided into the Machvaya, named after the Mačva region, which they settled from modern day Hungary.

References edit

^ "Первое Арбитражное Учреждение - Авторизация".
^ Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) (PDF).
^ Baló, Márton András (2015). "The nominal morphology of Lovari from an analogical perspective". Acta Linguistica Hungarica. 62 (4): 395–414. doi:10.1556/064.2015.62.4.2. JSTOR 26191784.
^ Óhidy, Andrea; Forray, Katalin R. (30 September 2019). Lifelong Learning and the Roma Minority in Central and Eastern Europe. Emerald Group. ISBN 9781838672591.
^ "Lovara [Rombase]". Rombase.uni-graz.at. Retrieved 2022-05-01.