What are the legends of Gypsies' hometown?

Gypsy means from Egypt in English. So the gypsies' hometown is in Egypt, which is mainly the view of the British. This statement comes from a story.

According to legend, in the 1 century, the ruling class of Roman slave owners decided to suppress Christians on a large scale, so they ordered an Egyptian blacksmith to hammer the nails needed for the cross. The blacksmith refused to obey. As a result, he was punished by the Roman rulers and expelled from Egypt. A large number of poor Egyptians who believed in Christianity also left their homeland with the blacksmith.

Three linguists put forward that the hometown of Gypsies is India: German Rudiger, German holman and Englishman Jacob Bryan. Through the contrastive study of languages, they found that many words in Gypsy dialect are very similar to Indian Sanskrit and Hindi, thus inferring that their ancestral home was in India and their ancestors were Dom who lived in North India for a long time. Scholars have also investigated the social system, cultural customs and other aspects. From the investigation, it is known that as early as the 4th century AD, Dom people in ancient India were famous for their love of music and divination, and they were probably Gypsies.

Dom nationality is a widely distributed and well-known nationality in ancient India. In the 4th century, this nation attracted people's attention with its ancient culture and unique customs. Most Dom people are music lovers and diviners.

In this regard, they were mentioned in an astronomical paper written in Sanskrit in the 6th century. They were called Gan Dalva, which means music lovers. Dom people can sing and dance well, and some make a living by it.

According to the research of British archaeologist and explorer hollier Stein, some Dom people make a living by busking, and the best of them are even favored by the king, who can go in and out of the palace. But this situation is rare. In most cases, Dom people are despised by other ethnic groups in India. They don't have a fixed occupation. Apart from walking around the rivers and lakes as actresses, they are often employed in lower-level occupations, such as night watchman, street sweeper, executioner, craftsman and so on.

Although Dom people are versatile and good at making a living, local farmers of all ethnic groups look down on them and forbid them to get married. There used to be a Dom group that believed in Islam, with about 300 people, in the Gilgit area in the north of Kishmiyong. These people attracted the attention of Lori Yi, a British oriental linguist, and studied their language, culture, customs and history, proving that these DOM migrated from Belch in the 2nd or 3rd century.

Lorima found that Dom people living in Gilgit generally speak two or three languages in order to make a living and adapt to the living conditions in various places. Although the Indian language they use also contains many foreign words, these words are very different from their mother tongue. The theory that Gypsies are descendants of Dom in India has been recognized by many people, but it is still inconclusive.