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Wallachian Roma
Wallachian
Roma
or
Vlax
refers to a
Romani community
that migrated from what is
today
Romania
to
Southeastern Europe
in the
18th
and
19th centuries
. They
speak
Vlax Romani
.
In
Hungary
, they migrated from Romania as part of the "Kelderara"
migration
wave
, and are
subdivided
into the
Lovara
, Bougeshti, Drizdari and others. They are related to the
Kalderash
of the
Balkans
. They are far
smaller than
the
Hungarian
Roma, who mainly speak Hungarian.
In
Serbia
, they migrated from Romania. They have
converted
to
Eastern Orthodoxy
and mostly speak
Serbian
fluently
.