the language developed outside from india, in roman province egypt, by indian traders from different areas of india, who settled at the red sea coast in egypt. it is based by sanskrit and prakrit, but strongly influenced by ancient greek, and persian language, old church slavonic, some words from the coptic language, like rōmi "man".loanwords from other languages in romani make it possible to trace the pattern of their migration westwards. there are many different dialects.