Query: The Romani people have migrated.

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Romani people <=SEP=> The Romani ( also spelled Romany ; -LSB- ˈroʊməni -RSB- , -LSB- ˈrɒ - -RSB- ) , or Roma , are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group , living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent ,   apparently from the region that is currently occupied by the Indian states of Rajasthan , Haryana , and Punjab .   The Romani are widely known among English-speaking people by the exonym `` Gypsies '' ( or `` Gipsies '' ) , which some people consider pejorative due to its connotations of illegality and irregularity .  They are a dispersed people , but their most concentrated populations are located in Europe , especially Central , Eastern and Southern Europe ( including Turkey , Spain and Southern France ) . The Romani originated in Northern India and arrived in Mid-West Asia , and Europe soon thereafter , around 1,000 years ago ,  either separating from the Dom people or , at least , having a similar history . Specifically , the ancestors of both the Romani and the Dom left North India sometime between the sixth and eleventh century .   Since the 19th century , some Romani have also migrated to the Americas . There are an estimated one million Roma in the United States ; and 800,000 in Brazil , most of whose ancestors emigrated in the nineteenth century from eastern Europe . Brazil also includes some Romani descended from people deported by the government of Portugal during the Inquisition in the colonial era . In migrations since the late nineteenth century , Romani have also moved to other countries in South America and to Canada .   In February 2016 , during the International Roma Conference , the Indian Minister of External Affairs stated that the people of the Roma community were children of India . The conference ended with a recommendation to the Government of India to recognize the Roma community spread across 30 countries as a part of the Indian diaspora .   The Romani language is divided into several dialects , which add up to an estimated number of speakers larger than two million . The total number of Romani people is at least twice as large ( several times as large according to high estimates ) . Many Romani are native speakers of the language current in their country of residence , or of mixed languages combining the two ; those varieties are sometimes called Para-Romani .

Romani diaspora <=SEP=> The Roma people have a number of distinct populations , the largest being the Roma and the Iberian Calé or Caló , who reached Anatolia and the Balkans about the early 12th century , from a migration out of northwestern India beginning about 600 years earlier . They settled in present-day Turkey , Greece , Serbia , Romania , Moldova , Bulgaria , Macedonia , Hungary and Slovakia , by order of volume , and Spain . From the Balkans , they migrated throughout Europe and , in the nineteenth and later centuries , to the Americas . The Romani population in the United States is estimated at more than one million .   There is no official or reliable count of the Romani populations worldwide . Many Romani refuse to register their ethnic identity in official censuses for fear of discrimination . Others are descendants of intermarriage with local populations and no longer identify only as Romani , or not at all .   As of the early 2000s , an estimated 4 to 9 million Romani people lived in Europe and Asia Minor . although some Romani organizations estimate numbers as high as 14 million .  Significant Romani populations are found in the Balkan peninsula , in some Central European states , in Spain , France , Russia , and Ukraine . The total number of Romani living outside Europe are primarily in the Middle East and North Africa and in the Americas , and are estimated in total at more than two million . Some countries do not collect data by ethnicity .   The Romani people identify as distinct ethnicities based in part on territorial , cultural and dialectal differences , and self-designation . The main branches are :   Roma , concentrated in Central and Eastern Europe and Italy , they emigrated ( mostly from the 19th century onwards ) to the rest of Europe , as well as the Americas ;  Iberian Kale , mostly in Spain ( see Romani people in Spain ) , but also in Portugal ( see Romani people in Portugal ) , Southern France and Latin America ;  Finnish Kale , in Finland , emigrated also in Sweden ;  Welsh Kale , in Wales and the British Isles ;  Romanichal , in the United Kingdom , some emigrated also to the United States , Canada and Australia ;  Sinti , in German-speaking areas of Europe and some neighboring countries ;  Manush , in French-speaking areas of Europe ( in French : Manouche ) ; and  Romanisæl , in Norway and Sweden .   The Romani have additional internal distinctions , with groups identified as Bashaldé ; Churari ; Luri ; Ungaritza ; Lovari ( Lovara ) from Hungary ; Machvaya ( Machavaya , Machwaya , or Macwaia ) from Serbia ; Romungro from Hungary and neighbouring Carpathian countries ; Erlides ( also Yerlii or Arli ) ; Xoraxai ( Horahane ) from Greece/Turkey ; Boyash ( Lingurari , Ludar , Ludari , Rudari , or Zlătari ) from Romanian/Moldovan miners ; Ursari from Romanian/Moldovan bear-trainers ; Argintari from silversmiths ; Aurari from goldsmiths ; Florari from florists ; and Lăutari from singers .