The Romani people originated in Northern India 50,000 years ago.
 The overall morphology suggests that Romani participated in some of the significant developments leading toward the emergence of New Indo-Aryan languages, thus indicating that the proto-Romani did not leave the Indian subcontinent until late in the second half of the first millennium
Around the year 1000, an event in northern India, about the time of Muslim invaders, likely triggered the Romas mass exodus

