Lovari

The Lovara ( " horse-dealer " of Hungarian ló horse) are a subgroup of the Roma, which is in much of Europe, including Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, France, Poland and Hungary, but in addition also to be found overseas. They call themselves less as Roma, because when Rome ( in the plural ), after which put some of them special value. Your language is counted among the Vlach dialects of Romani. It is believed that they have for centuries moved further than serfs in Wallachia in present-day Romania, but in addition have lived in Hungary for a longer time and only after the abolition of serfdom in the mid-19th century to the north and northwest. Most Lovara are Catholic, however, find free churches, especially Pentecostal, more and more followers among them.

Lovara in Austria

Some Lovara families in the late 1930s in Burgenland and in Vienna resident, when Austria was annexed to the German Reich. From their settlements, such as the Heller meadow and the Wankog'stätten in the 10th district of Vienna, the extended families were deported to the concentration camps, the homes were destroyed afterwards.

Only a few survivors came back after the war, including some members of the extended family Stojka. They now live mostly in the Vienna area. Their language, Lovara Romanes, was codified between 1997 and 1999 as part of the Austrian Romani project, that is, it was first written language. A dictionary and two text volumes are created, described the grammar. The language is only spoken little, especially from the old Lovara.

The Lovaraweg in the 21st district of Vienna ( Floridsdorf ) recalls since 2001 to the Lovara.

Lovara in Germany

In Germany the Lovara be, in addition to the Kalderascha ( Kelderara ) and Tschurara, sometimes referred to as " German Roma " because they stay for about the 1870s ( in the Rhineland only since about 1900 ) in the eastern and north-eastern parts of Germany and thus longer to be found in Germany are as Roma that only in the last decades of the Balkans, particularly in the area of the former Yugoslavia, immigrated or fled. Unlike, say, the Kalderascha the Lovara carry predominantly German family names that have been partially taken over by the Sinti. The Lovara dialect here is still quite common. As the Kalderascha also have the Lovara in Germany kinship ties to Poland.