[4][5] The Vlax Roma, a subgroup of the Romani people that speak the Vlax Romani language, originate from the former Roma slaves in the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (with the name "Vlax", which comes from "Vlach", coming from the latter), now Romania.

[6] The words Romani and Romania are false cognates, the former deriving from Romani rom – ultimately from Sanskrit word ḍoma/डोम, and the latter deriving from Romanian român – ultimately from Latin.

[2] Elšík[7] uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras[8]): Vlax Romani is written using the Romani orthography, predominantly using the Latin alphabet with several additional characters.

In the area of the former Soviet Union, however, it can also be written in the Cyrillic script.

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