your bridge home
True Valor
Their word for water is pani. Their word for brother is phral. They left north-west India a thousand years ago and have never been home.
In Romani, water is pani. Brother is phral. Three is trin, ten is desh, a person is manush, and god is devel.
Any Hindi speaker reading that list knows what they are looking at.
The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe. Somewhere around ten to twelve million people.
They are spread across every European country. Their numbers are large in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey.
And further communities in the Americas.
They have been in Europe for roughly a thousand years.
They came from India.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.