The Gypsy women take care of their homes and have all the control in it. Romani, their language, is only verbal. All of them speak it as well as the language of the place they live. Romani has Sanskrit roots and includes words from Armenian, Persian and even Greek. Similar dialects can be found even today in some areas of India, from which it is believed they originally came.
Hierarchy is determined again by unwritten laws.
The older in age is the most respected. Nicos Papazoglou and Nicos Xiolakis, are not ashamed of their race, but not many people know that they are Gypsies. According to information that reached the free part of Cyprus, some years ago, the Gypsies of Cyprus now live in the city of Morphou in shacks. Cypriot Gypsies were always closer to Turks. The first official report regarding their existence comes from the British invaders in 1878.