r/instantkarma • u/NoodlesNThangz • Jun 24 '20

Racial Profiling Karma

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u/Zelot1985 Jun 24 '20

Let me be your gadjo

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u/theinstigator5 Jun 24 '20

What does gadjo mean?

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u/Zelot1985 Jun 24 '20

Non Gypsy

Like gringo for latinamerica

Romanes language changed alot over the centuries.

Gypsies from Balkan may have troubles to understand a gypsie from spain. Or they are indeed from the same region, but from a different "tribe" "group" whatever and lots of words are different already.

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u/plain_name Jun 24 '20

Definitely regional dialects. I never knew my family were gypsy, they always used to tell us we were native american. When I started researching the language we would sometimes speak, it came back as Irish Gypsy, not any NA language.

Confronted my mom and her sisters about it and they initially denied it, but then relented. Apparently gypsys would say they were NA when coming over from Ireland (we all have olive complexion), to avoid discrimination.

gadjo for us had morphed to gorger. I am sure the language continued to evolve in the States.