Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Netherlands, and elsewhere
Ethnicity
Yenish
Native speakers
16,000 (2006)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
High German
Yenish
Writing system
Latin (German alphabet)
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Switzerland[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
yec
Glottolog
yeni1236
Yenish (French: Yeniche, German: Jenisch), is a variety of German spoken by the Yenish people, former nomads living mostly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Alsace and other parts of France.
^Yenish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^"Yenish in Switzerland". Database for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
Yenish (French: Yeniche, German: Jenisch), is a variety of German spoken by the Yenish people, former nomads living mostly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland...
refers to the language, not the people, until the first half of the 19th century. Jean Paul (1801) glosses jänische Sprache ("Yenishlanguage") with so nennt...
Yenish, also spelled Yeniche or Jenische, may refer to: Yenish people Yenishlanguage This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
region, e.g. the languages of Sinti and Roma, the Yiddish language, the Yenishlanguage as well as Plautdietsch Dialects and languages of immigrants are...
German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏ̯t͡ʃ] ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It...
the Yenish, an indigenous Germanic group. Many intinerant groups speak their own language or dialect, though with outsiders will use the language of the...
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thieves, and, by 1899, the police kept a central register on Sinti, Roma, and Yenish peoples. Nazi Germany considered them racially inferior (see Nazism and...
may have mixed with the Yenish people and Romani people in the past, and have many Yenish and Romani loanwords in their language. Known to the settled majority...
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe...
— Gustav Meyrink Germanía Grypsera Lotegorisch Polari Yenish Puchner, Martin (2020). The language of thieves : my family's obsession with a secret code...
year old Yenish boy Ernst Lossa (1929–1944). It was listed as one of eight films that could be the German submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at...
Romani minority in Switzerland are subjected to discrimination along with Yenish people. A police ‘Gypsy registry’ was established before World War I. In...
Travellers and the Yenish people in western Europe, the Romani are culturally different. The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language with strong Balkan...
aspect about the early culture of Pfedelbach is the affiliation to the Yenishlanguage. Elections were held in May 2014: Wikimedia Commons has media related...
Lorrainian, Luxembourgish, and Yenish Basque/Euskara and Lyons Sign Language Gallo-Italic languages: Ligurian Gallo-Romance languages Langues d'oïl: Angevin,...
Juventute from 1926 to 1973. The project aimed to assimilate the itinerant Yenish people in Switzerland by forcibly removing their children from their parents...
(including Yenish people). The vast majority of this population uses a variety of French, usually called Voyageur, as their native language. The French...
similar to council houses as emergency shelters, especially for families of Yenish tradesmen, showmen, scrap merchants, second-hand dealers and descendants...
group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
Travellers Scottish Travellers Travelling Showmen Voyageurs Welsh Kale Yenish Travellers A 1986 study reported that 39% of marriages in the study were...
poverty or moral reasons (e.g. the mother being unmarried, very poor, of Yenish origin, etc.), and sent to live with new families, often poor farmers who...
rapes. He is the 11th child of a family of 16 children, descending from a Yenish community. After his first prison term, served in 1969, Bodein, a member...
next to Ermines Many cultural groups, which identify themselves mostly by language, use traditional flag of the regions of its origin. Such flags are not...
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