Citation

Kutlík-Garudo IE. Gegenbaurs Morphol Jahrb 1988; 134(3): 249-289.

Vernacular Title

Zur Geographie der Zigeunerbenennungen vom Indus bis zum Ibar.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3197933

Abstract

Among the numerous, to some extent rather different denominations which the gypsies received from their individual hosts on their apparently entangled migration ways from their aboriginal Indian home to the west, in the far and wide reaching countries spreading between the valley of the Indus and the region of the sources of the river Ibar, the northern liguistic frontier of the Albanian language, 2 larger denomination areas can be encircled. The 1st circle is characterized by the names of the type gebti in Persian, and KIptI in Turkish, resp., the 2nd circle by the denominations of the type Cingene in Turkish, and (a)tsinganos in Greek. The boundaries of both denomination circles run along a line which extends on all sides in equal short distances from the northwestern western, resp., and southwestern boundaries of nowadays Iran with one exception, namely of one part of the eastern frontier of Turkey where the denomination boundary is pushed forward in a comparatively far reaching loop to the west. On both sides of this boundary-line there accidentally occur some denominations which in view of their place value assert themselves only little and are to be ascribed to the respective other denomination circle. On the basis of these facts, an attempt has been made to bring these peculiarities of denominations into causal relationship with two enormous and disastrous situations in the life of the ancestors of nowadays occidental gypsies, namely with the invasion of the Huns in India in the 5th century A.D. and the Mongolian assault in the Iran in the 13th century A.D. These 2 events brought about further historic migration shifts of the border overflowing extent. At present, the so-called gypsies of India have only little in common with the gypsies of Europe although certain features of like shape especially in their stock of words are unmistakable.

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