page_title: Yenish people
hierarchical_section_title: Yenish people
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Jenische am Lauerzersee, Schwyz, Schweiz. English: Yenish at lake Lauerz, Schwyz, Switzerland.
context_page_description: The Yenish are an itinerant group in Western Europe, living mostly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium and parts of France, roughly centred on the Rhineland. They are descended from members of the marginalized and vagrant poor classes of society of the early modern period, and emerged as a distinct group by the early 19th century. In this regard, and also in their lifestyle, they resemble the Scottish and Irish Travellers.
  Most of the Yenish have become sedentary in the course of the mid-19th to 20th centuries.
context_section_description: The Yenish (German: Jenische; French: Yéniche) are an itinerant group in Western Europe, living mostly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium and parts of France, roughly centred on the Rhineland. They are descended from  members of the marginalized and vagrant poor classes of society of the early modern period, and emerged as a distinct group by the early 19th century. In this regard, and also in their lifestyle, they resemble the Scottish and Irish Travellers.
  Most of the Yenish have become sedentary in the course of the mid-19th to 20th centuries.
caption: Yenish at Lake Lauerz, Schwyz, Switzerland, 1928
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