Vying about origins. See ://www.m-w.com/dictionary/vie. "Bury Me Standing" says that the Vlachs were Latin-speaking; and that they saw the value in Gypsies (this section suggests that the Vlachs were not themselves Gypsies - need to find out more) at p. 177. Then again, there is an earlier record of two "Egyptians" including a Vlach who ordered merchandise in the Balkans (Dubrovnik, Croatia?).
This site recognizes the Vlach origins of Gypsies in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, see http://romani.uni-graz.at/rombase/cgi-bin/art.cgi?src=data/ethn/groupscz/cz-vlax.en.xml.
This one examines their history and culture, as they are in Hungary - Hungarian Gypsies. See ://www.everyculture.com/Europe/Vlach-Gypsies-of-Hungary.html
This site does not recognize Vlachs as Gypsy at all. See "Bury Me Standing, The Gypsies and their Journey," Isabel Fonseca, NY Vintage 1996. It sees them, from records, as indigenous to the area from the times of the Roman Legions, and speaking a vernacular Latin. Fonseca researched records from books not translated before, and not circulated - even now. You have to go to the libraries, ask, wait, hope.
Tracing origins by language. Specific words used in different parts of Europe are followed at this site, pointing out the branches of Romani.
//www.marston.co.uk/RSPP/LUPRSV012P02A00075.pdf, are listed as
1. Northern -
Germany and France - "Sinti"
Scandinavian, Spain, Poland, Northern Russia, Baltic States [association with late middle ages migration, into central, northern, southern, western Europe]
2. Central - Hungary, Burgenland in Austria, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic
3. Balkan
4. Vlax
For the Vlachs, or Vlax, or Vlachi, see an initial overview and photos at Romania Road Ways, Vlachs. See also the Czech Republic and Slovakian Vlachs at http://romani.uni-graz.at/rombase/cgi-bin/art.cgi?src=data/ethn/groupscz/cz-vlax.en.xml.
They are also in Greece, and that is where we photographed one - a shepherd, with his sheep, see Greece Road Ways, Ioannina, Metsovo, Vlachs. And Texas, around the area of Vlassko, see ://www.angelfire.com/tx5/texasczech/Valachs/Who%20are%20the%20Valachs.htm; and ://brunodam.blog.kataweb.it/2006/10/26/xviii-ae-forum-on-aromaniansvlachs/
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