In migrations since the late 19th century, Romani people have also moved to other countries in South America and to Canada. Brazil also includes a notable Romani community descended from people deported by the Portuguese Empire during the Portuguese Inquisition. There are an estimated one million Roma in the United States and 800,000 in Brazil, most of whose ancestors emigrated in the 19th century from Eastern Europe. Since the 19th century, some Romani people have also migrated to the Americas. The Romani people arrived in West Asia and Europe around the 14th century. They are dispersed, but their most concentrated populations are located in Europe, especially Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (including Southern France), as well as Western Asia (mainly Turkey). Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Roma originated in the Indian subcontinent in particular, the region of Rajasthan. At the first World Romani Congress in 1971, its attendees unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Romani people, including Gypsy, due to their aforementioned negative and stereotypical connotations. For versions (some of which are cognates) of the word in many other languages (e.g., French: Tzigane, Spanish: gitano, Italian: zingaro, Portuguese: cigano, Romanian: țigan and German: Zigeuner) this perception is either very small or non-existent. In the English language, the Romani people are widely known by the exonym Gypsies (or Gipsies), which is considered pejorative by many Romani people due to its connotations of illegality and irregularity as well as its historical use as a racial slur. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with significant concentrations in the Americas.
The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani / ˈ r oʊ m ə n i/, / ˈ r ɒ-/), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. Romani language, Para-Romani varieties, languages of native regions
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