They are one of several groups identified as Travellers in the UK and Ireland. Despite often being incorrectly referred to as Gypsies, Irish Travellers are not genetically related to the Romani, who are of Indo-Aryan origin.
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A 'traveller' is any other person who just goes on a journey from one place to another. Traveller people call other people 'settled'. Gypsy/Traveller or Scottish Traveller people are one of the four main groups that make up Scotland's Travelling communities.
Gypsy and Traveller languagesShelta is a language spoken by Irish Travellers. It is widely known as the Cant and De Gammon to its native speakers in Ireland. It was often spoken to exclude outsiders from understanding conversations. Romani (or Romany) is actually several languages spoken by the Romani people.
What's in a name? The RTFHS website includes lists of surnames that frequently occur in the Gypsy and Traveller community. Gypsy surnames which occur in Surrey include Cooper, Matthews, Ayres, Smith, Green, Taylor, Williams, Brazil, Shepherd, Beaney, Chapman and Scott among others.
Irish Travellers usually refer to themselves as Travellers, Pavee or Mincéirs. There are believed to be 300,000 or more Gypsy and Traveller people currently living in the UK. There are Gypsies and Travellers across every profession – nurses, police, social workers, company directors and so much more.