Sanskrit was spoken throughout the ancient world, not just in what is today India. Roma may have come out of India some 800 years ago, however, they may not have migrated into India till around the first millennium CE. I suspect that ancient Roma history, per oral tradition is right on target. Roma may well have come out of Egypt, and may be Israelites, possibly part of the 10 lost tribes. Source: Titus Flavius Josephus. Considering the way societies tend to re-brand, label and profile their people during times of hardship and unrest, it would not surprise me if the “Gypsy” of today, has some relation to the Wandering Jew. That may explain whey Rom follow Abrahamic law, and have held on to orthodox Jewish traditions. Roma were also carried off as slaves, some Roma were still held as slaves, up to the mid 1800’s. Roma aren’t the first people to ever be mislabeled. For instance, right now any person who is of a degenerate or dishonest character,the indigent, mentally ill homeless, criminals, anyone without a fixed residence, or anyone who pursues an aberrant life style,petty criminals, and anyone who lives on the shady fringes of society, is currently in the process of being reclassified, and relabeled as a “Gypsy/gypsy” regardless of their genetics. This is being done by mainstream media, and various law enforcement agencies. Within 80 years, there will be millions of falsely classified “gypsies”, who are not genetically related to Sinti or Roma. Until we can differentiate between races and ethnicity’s by way of DNA testing, we may never know the whole truth, as to where the Roma originated. As of right now, there is no way to do that, as far as I know. http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml
Boy, have I learned a lot since I posted this! I wish I could remove this glaring example of my impulsive, knee jerking, big mouthed nature. My assumption was so far off base, it’s humiliating.
I dove into this “Gypsy” topic headfirst due to bait set out for me, by someone determined to play a hoax on me. I fell for it, took the bait and down the rabbit hole I went with it. I only recently uncovered this hoax, set up by someone who wished to humiliate and embarrass me, and also alienate me from law enforcement, by linking me to the criminal “Gypsy’ element.
I took the bait, and true to form put my foot in my mouth, both in fact. What I don’t know is a lot, what I do know is; that I was standing up for a badly downtrodden people, the Romani people, not wanton criminals.
I see now, that I was way too ignorant on this subject to even be talking about it. My heart truly was in the right place, and I’m truly sorry if I offended, or misinformed anyone — due to my ignorance.
That said, it makes me sad that there are such haters and racists out in the world, that they would attempt to link me to a certain race of people, in order to denigrate me as a person. To that person, I can only say, I feel very sorry for you.