Di qua e di là dal confine: la romaní dei sinti piemontesi di Piemonte e quella dei sinti piemontesi di Francia a confronto

In the South of France and in Piedmont (Italy) are settled two Sinti communities who call themselves “Piedmontese”. The common self-appellation seems to suggest that Piedmontese Sinti of France represent a group of Piedmontese Sinti of Piedmont that migrated to Southern France, but in fact the historical relations between the two communities have not been yet investigated. The comparative analysis of the Romani dialects spoken by the two communities shows that Romani as spoken by Piedmontese Sinti of France shares some morphological and lexical features with the Romani of Lombard Sinti, another Sinti community of Northern Italy. The article proposes that the Piedmontese Sinti currently settled in France are descendants of a community once settled in an intermediate area between those of Piedmontese Sinti of Piedmont and Lombard Sinti.