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A people named for a continent they never came from, by mapmakers who guessed.
means An informal, now often offensive, term for the Romani people, whose origins trace to India, not Egypt.
from From Egyptian — medieval Europeans wrongly assumed the dark-skinned wanderers had arrived from Egypt; genetics later pinned their roots to northern India.
True originRomani migrated from India around a thousand years ago.
Language clueRomani shares deep roots with Sanskrit and Hindi.
Preferred termMany now consider Roma or Romani respectful instead.
Misnomer twinsRomanians and Romani are entirely unrelated peoples.