Thesaurus:mustalainen

See also: Rom

Finnish

Noun

Sense: Rom, Romani person

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Usage notes
  • The international term romani is preferred in standard Finnish.
  • The endonymic Finnish Kalo terms are kaalo (literally “black man”) and kaali (literally “black woman”). The calque tumma (literally “dark one”) is chiefly used by the Roma themselves.
  • In Finnish, the Roma generally use mustalainen (literally “black person”), contrasting it with valkolainen (“Finn”, literally “white person”). However, these terms may be considered offensive by younger non-Romani Finns.
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