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The Romani people, also referred to depending on the sub-group as Roma, Sinti or Sindhi, Kale, or Romani, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, who live primarily in Europe. They originated in northwest regions of the Indian subcontinent〔 〕〔 〕 and left sometime between the 6th and 11th century to work in Middle Eastern courts of their own volition, or as slaves. A small number of nomadic groups were cut off from their return to the subcontinent by conflicts and moved west,〔 eventually settling in Europe, Turkey and North Africa via Iran.〔 〕 ==Origin== The Romani have been described by Diana Muir Appelbaum as unique among peoples because they have never identified themselves with a territory; they have no tradition of an ancient and distant homeland from which their ancestors migrated, nor do they claim the right to national sovereignty in any of the lands where they reside, rather, Romani identity is bound up with the ideal of freedom expressed, in part, in having no ties to a homeland.〔Appelbaum, Diana, "The Rootless Roma", The American Interest, http://www.academia.edu/2364585/The_Rootless_Roma〕 The absence of traditional origin stories and of a written history has meant that the origin and early history of the Romani people was long an enigma. Indian origin was suggested on linguistic grounds as early as 200 years ago. The genetic evidence identified an Indian origin for Roma.〔(Isabel Mendizabal and 21 others, "Reconstructing the Population History of European Romani from Genome-wide Data" ), ''Current Biology'', Available online 6 December 2012, accessed 12 December 2012〕〔"Genomic Study Traces Roma to Northern India", ''New York Times'', 11 December 2012. Findings recently reported also in ''Current Biology''.〕 One theory suggests that the name ultimately derives from a form ''ḍōmba-'' 'man of low caste living by singing and music', attested in Classical Sanskrit.〔Cf. Ralph L. Turner, ''A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages'', p. 314. London: Oxford University Press, 1962-6.〕 An alternative view is that the ancestors of the Romani were part of the military in Northern India. When there were invasions by Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi and these soldiers were defeated, they were moved west with their families into the Byzantine Empire between AD 1000 and 1030. Genetic evidence connects the Romani people to the descendants of groups which emigrated from South Asia towards Central Asia during the medieval period.〔Hancock, Ian. Ame Sam e Rromane Džene/We are the Romani people. p. 13. ISBN 1-902806-19-0〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Romani people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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