Abstrakt
The present paper attempts to provide an overview of the linguistic situation of Vend Romani, a South Central Romani dialect spoken in western Hungary, which is seriously endangered by language shift to Hungarian. It especially deals with the ethnonyms used by the speakers, the geographical spread of the dialect and several sociolinguistic issues such as the status of the language and the impact of mixed marriages on language transmission.
The data come from sociolinguistic and dialectological field research on Vend Romani in western Hungary, carried out by the author during 2010 and 2011.