ROMANIYABlog
Writing about our culture, our language, our history and our music.
What this site is for
Why a social network for Roma people, when there are already several perfectly good ones for everybody.
The music everyone knows and nobody credits
A remarkable amount of what the world thinks of as Hungarian, Romanian, Spanish or Russian music was played first by Roma.
The Romani language, and where it came from
A thousand years of travelling, recorded in grammar. Romani is the receipt for a journey nobody wrote down.
The flag and the wheel
Green field, blue sky, and a red wheel in the middle. Every part of it was chosen, in a room, on a specific afternoon in 1971.
What “Romaniya” means
The site is named after an idea rather than a place, and the idea is older than any of us.
Romaniya is a social network for Roma people all over the world. Communities, family trees, a map, a bazaar and our music. It is free, and it is ours.
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