Romani people in Argentina

Not to be confused with Romanian Argentines.
Romani people in Argentina
Argentine Roma in 1919
Total population
≈ 300,000
Regions with significant populations
Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Córdoba and Comodoro Rivadavia
Languages
Argentinian Spanish, Romani
Religion
Catholicism and Pentecostalism
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The Roma community in Argentina (Spanish: Gitanos en Argentina) number more than 300,000.[1] The first Roma to arrive in Argentina were Gitanos who came from Spain at different times and spoke only Spanish dialects instead of the Romani language.[2] The Spanish Roma settled mainly in Buenos Aires.[3]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Emerging Romani Voices from Latin America". Errc.org.
  2. ^ "Development of Roma Civil Rights Movements in Argentina and Latin America - RomArchive". www.romarchive.eu. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Los gitanos en la Argentina" (PDF) (in Spanish).
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