What is Romani people in Romania?
'''Romani people in Romania''' are [[Romania|Romanian]] citizens who are of [[Roma people|Romani]] descent. The Roma are one of Romania's largest minorities. The Roma are the second largest ethnic group in Romania after [[Hungarians]]. According to the 2011 census, 621,573 Roma lived in Romania. They constitute 3.08% of the total Romanian population.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://covinnus.com/history-roma-people-romania/|title=A brief history of Roma people in Romania|date=17 December 2019 }}</ref> The Turkish speaking [[Muslim]] [[Xoraxane Roma]], lives in [[Dobruja]] and made 1,8% of the population.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.academia.edu/6998709 | title=The Muslim Gypsies in Romania | last1=Oprisan | first1=Ana }}</ref> The size of the total population of people with Romani ancestry in Romania is even more, with different estimates varying from 4.6 percent to over 10 percent of the population, because many people of Romani descent do not declare themselves Roma.<ref>Margaret Beissinger, Speranta Radulescu, [[Anca Giurchescu]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=0rG_DAAAQBAJ&dq=%224.6+percent+to+over+10+percent+of+the+population%22&pg=PR33 Manele in Romania: Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music], Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, p. 33, {{ISBN|9781442267084}}</ref><ref>Holly Cartner, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0SF1AAAAMAAJ&q=%22+more+than+10+percent+of+the+total+population+(Romania%27s+population+is+23+million)%22 Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Persecution of Gypsies in Romania, a Helsinki Watch Report] Human Rights Watch, 1991, p. 5, {{ISBN|9781564320377}}</ref> For example, in 2007 the [[Council of Europe]] estimated that approximately 1.85 million Roma lived in Romania,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070622154153/http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/romatravellers/documentation/strategies/statistiques_en.asp Council of Europe - Roma and Travellers]</ref> based on an average between the lowest estimate (1.2 to 2.2 million people<ref>[https://rm.coe.int/09000016805defd1 Council of Europ