Boyash (also known as Bayash; Hungarian: Beás) are a Roma (Gypsy) ethnic group living mainly in Hungary. The Roma people (pronounced rahma; singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom), along with the closely related Sinti people, are commonly known as Gypsies in English. ...

Their origins are unclear, but it is believed they were slaves in the Banat, where they were forced to abandon their language and to adopt Romanian language. They are currently speaking a distinct archaic dialect of Romanian, but heavily influenced by Hungarian and Roma borrowings. Banat (Hungarian: Bánát or Bánság, German: Banat) is a region in Southeastern Europe divided among three countries: the eastern part belongs to Romania (the counties of Timiş and Caraş-Severin), the western part to Serbia-Montenegro (the Serbian Banat, mostly included in the Vojvodina, except for the small part of... Romanian (limba română IPA ), the official language of Romania is an Eastern Romance language, spoken natively by about 26 million people, most of them in Romania and Vojvodina. ... Romany (or Romani) is the language of the Roma and Sinti, travelling peoples often referred to in English as gypsies and in the East and Central Europe known as tsigane. ...

What's notable about their language is that it was not touched by any of the 19th century language reforms and contains none of the neologism now common in standard Romanian, preserving now-lost features of the speech of Banat. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1993, about 14,000 of the 280,000 Hungarian Roma were Boyash. 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

In Croatia, the Bayash are settled in several small communities along the Hungarian border in the regions of Međemurije, the Podravina, Slavonja and The Baranja. In 2005, the Croatian Bayash language was published with its own alphabet for the first time in the Catholic Catechism published by the HBK Glas Konica in Zagreb.

References

• Kemény, István: The Structure of Hungarian Roma Groups in Light of Linguistic Changes