#řomani

[aj-rromale]

Ane palune bersha but roma ani Evropa ljiljepe te keren romane alavaria-lexin pe e diferentne romane chibja thaj dialektia. Numa kobor shaj von te den dumo te arakholpe e romani chib? Chachimastar kobor alava-vorbe si e chache romane so amen vorbis pe romani chib? Sar von kerde buchi te arakhen e romane alava-vorbe? Kobor lungo vrama von kerde buchi? Si sa e romane alava -vorbe so hramolpe ano alavara-lexin? Si e puchimata save amen kamlja te djana kana ashundam kaj jek rom lingvisti kotar o Balkan agoril piro alavri ane dialektia gurbeti thaj arli.

Ja vov si o Alija Krsanici, lingvsti, romano zurnalisti thaj poeti. 42 bersh hramol pe romani chib, pustika-(kevnje), paramicha, poezia, ljila thaj javer, sa akava kerol pa e dialektia gurbeti thaj arli kotar o Balkan ja se e purani Jugoslavia.

37 bersh kerda buchi, rodipe te arakhol e romane alava-vorbe thja akana agoril piro alavari kotar e romani ke serbikani chib ja se kotar e serbikani ke romani chib ane dialektia gurbeti thaj arli saven ka avol 60.000 alava pe kala dialektia.

Vov si jekh rom savo avol kotar o Kosovo numa palo maripe savo sas andi purani Jugoslavia avdive vov trail thaj kerol buchi ani upruni Srbija ando foro Subotica.

Really cool news! There is a new dictionary by Alija Krsanici for the Arli and Gurbeti Balkan dialects of Romani!

[aj-rromale]

[aj-rromale]

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from Urbinder Films

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[lisjonok]

Oh wow, Ronald Lee's book on the Kalderash language is... really different from the European dialect. Like, damn. I got a new dictionary (Russian), but I of course haven't read through all of it, but on the forums I am constantly being corrected over which word to use (which I'm grateful for!). But damn, lol.

No wonder they told me I was mixing up dialects. Lee's seems like a mix of Lovari and Kalderash with a lot of Russian words thrown in, besides English ones.

Some words I have been corrected to use:

bufari (буфари) or kenjva (кеньва), not kliška (клишка),which is the Russian word for book "knižka (книжка)", not necessarily incorrect, but they said they don't hear it often.

dareš (дареш) not daži (дажи) for "even/though", which is the Russian word "daže (даже)".

ej (эй) or aj (ай) for "yes", since they said "(a)va/(o)va (ава/ова)" is Lovari, however, they said I can go on using that, but expect people to maybe not understand it.

Really strange, I didn't know this one was so different! I'm glad I found a nice user on there who isn't afraid to correct or question my word choices, haha.

I am still really curious though, where they say -ji (-йи) endings in place of -ni (-ни) endings (i.e. sumnakuji instead of sumnakuni (сумнакуйи/сумнакуни)). The dictionaries I have have either one or the other, but never both, and neither explains whether this is a regional dialect or a frequent shift in pronunciation.

Very curious! Otherwise, been having a lot of practice typing Romani in Cyrillic, and it's actually getting pretty easy now.

Инка цырра шодо, нума акана бай федер ғакхярав, сар ғрамов ғай гинавав.

[lisjonok]

Apparently... I am going to do some kind of... Romani word/phrase a day on a Romani group on FaceBook. I guess I may as well do that on Aj-Rromale as well? Uh. I'll think about this. I told her I'm not Roma, but she said it's fine. Okay then! I guess I will compile a word and phrase list from my books and sources later.

Fal ma te kerav kasavi romani vorba vaj fraza ando djes pe 'kh romani gruppa po FaceBook. Daštij te vi kerav kado po Aj-Rromale? A... Te gindij ma pa kadi. Phendjom lake ke me či sim romnji, ale voj phendja kadi naj bajo. Mišto-j pale! Te kerav ekh kedimo vorbi thaj frazi katar mure kliški thaj resursuro pale.

I don't trust myself, so I'll use phrases and such from my books, noting the dialects and such.