Marginal Multilingualism and Its Potential in Fighting the Xenophobia/Romaphobia

Exploring the Roma's marginal multilingualism leads to the following three main conclusions. First, the Roma - being present in entire Europe and being largely connected as families practicing the same professions (many times professions for surviving, including those dishonest and dirty) speak almost all the active languages of Europe. That is a) in a traditional multilingual context, temporarily settled Roma spoke fluently all the languages of the context; b) in a new multilingual context, the Roma in mobility speak the languages needed there - the local languages plus the others mobile groups' languages. Secondly, in the Bihor-county they practiced the languages of the loci (Hungarian, Romanian and some variety of Romani). They select only the economically necessary languages. Thirdly, their linguistic abilities are not due to their musical competences, but to the practical reasons: they earn their living due to the linguistic interactions with Others - the speakers of different languages. That is why they acquire rapidly new languages, no matter, how many those languages are and to which family they belong to. The need to survive is the first explanatory factor of their active interest and effectiveness in multilingualism. What we believe it became extremely significant, it is to explore - interpret - the political significance of the Roma marginal multilingualism in the context of the new extreme xenophobia that targets them. Does the Roma's marginal multilingualism carry out a socio-political potential? Does the multilingualism play a role in curving the millennial xenophobia against them? Could it lead to dismantling the Romaphobia in Europe? Answering such questions, we plead for intensively communicate in the scientific milieu on the Roma marginal multilingualism, and to underline constantly its socio-political potential. It is to valorize this positive Roma feature in fighting the stigma on Roma and Romani languages, in curving the xenophobia and to encourage them to contribute to a cohesive Europe.