Balkan Romani
| Balkan Romani | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, Turkey |
Native speakers | unknown (590,000 cited 1985 – no date)[1] |
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Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
rmn |
| Glottolog |
balk1252[2] |
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Balkan Romani is a group of dialects of the Romani language spoken in various Roma groups in the Balkans.
Dialects
Elšík [3] uses this classification and dialect examples (geographical information from Matras [4]):
| Sub-group | Dialect | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Balkan | Prizren | Kosovo |
| Arli | Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo | |
| Prilep | Macedonia | |
| Kyrymitika | Ukraine [5] | |
| Sofia Erli | Sofia | |
| Zargari | Azerbaijan | |
| Romano | northeastern Iran | |
| Sepeči | northern Greece, Turkey | |
| Rumelian | European part of today's Turkey, historically called Rumelia [6] | |
| Northern Balkan | Bugurdži | Macedonia, Kosovo [7] |
| Razgrad Drindari | northeastern Bulgaria | |
| Pazardžik Kalajdži | Bulgaria and immigrants in Macedonia and Kosovo |
Sample
| Romani (Bugurdži, Macedonia) | Romani (Arli, Macedonia) | English |
|---|---|---|
| Lačho [to] saba[h]i. | Lačho [o] sabalje. | Good morning. |
| Lačho [to] zi[e]s. | Lačho [o] dive. | Good day. |
| Lačhi [ti] rat. | Lačhi [i] rat. | Good night. |
| Sar isi to anav? | Sar si tiro anav? | What's your name? |
| Mo anav isi Elvis. | Mo anav si Elvis. | My name is Elvis. |
| Isinom lošalo kaj avdom tut! | Šukar te dikhav tut! | Pleased to meet you! |
| Isinan prandime? | Sijan li romnjakoro? | Are you married? |
| Va, me isinom prandime. | Va, me sijum romnjakoro. | Yes, I'm married. |
| Na, me isinom biprandime. | Na, me sijum biromnjakoro. | No, I'm unmarried. |
| Me isi man raklija. | Me si ma raklija. | I have a girlfriend. |
References
- ↑ Balkan Romani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Balkan Romani". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Elšík, Viktor (1999). "Dialect variation in Romani personal pronouns" (PDF). p. 2. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- ↑ Matras, Yaron (2002). Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-02330-0
- ↑ Ventcel’, Tat’jana V. & Lev N. Čerenkov. 1976. “Dialekty cyganskogo jazyka”. Jazyki Azii i Afriki I, 283-332. Moskva: Nauka.
- ↑ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/512682/Rumelia
- ↑ "Romani Dialects". ROMLEX. Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. http://romani.uni-graz.at/romlex/dialects.xml.
External links
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Balkan Romani test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- "Romani language in Macedonia in the Third Millennium: Progress and Problems", Victor Friedman.
- "The Romani Language in the Republic of Macedonia: Status, Usage and Sociolinguistic Perspectives, Victor Friedman.
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