#romani language

[nightwingsgypsyrep]

This is your friendly reminder that Romani ≠ Romanian.

They are not interchangeable.

I am very tired.

Thank you very much.

[starlight-shadowbanned]

@crematedequally actually zhuzh entered english through polari! polari does have yiddish influences, but zhuzh happens not to be yiddish. apparently the origin is unclear but it could be from the romani language

[kami-in-space]

So no one was gonna tell me the Fremen in the books speak Romanes? What the hell?

[arcadeyes]

Learning a “useless language” can be hard.

First off, i’d like to state that i believe no language is truly useless. Not ones people in your country don’t speak, not ones that have a very low amount of speakers, not even ones that died out a thousand years ago. But learning a language that the world (or even just yourself) has deemed useless can be hard.

The lack of resources available for these lesser learnt languages can be annoying especially if it isnt on duolingo or other language learning apps.

The lack of community. I’m attempting to learn romanes because my mother is romani but she doesnt speak it and its a closed language (might talk about that in a later post)

The lack of motive. Yes, i want to learn my ancestors/families languages but its hard. It’s not like i’ll get to speak it with anyone.

But sometimes its not so hard. Sometimes you get this sprinkle of hope- a reward that makes you want to push on. For myself, that’ll be talking to my irish friend A as gaeilge. We are both chugging through the duolingo course and sometimes we might attempt to have a little natter in irish and for a moment i’ll feel like i’m not wasting my time. i’m doing something worthwhile.

Learning a useless language can be hard, but the thought of giving up is worse.

Learning a useless language can’t be hard because in my eyes there are no useless languages.

[riotgrrrlhole]

Today is the international day of the Romani Language , there are several varieties of the language and the root of all is indoeuropean

[potaytopotahtopotuhto]

Sign the Petition

Romani language on Duolingo

[acebreathesfire]

The Shikawa Romanus/Learning Romany site is live! Language preservation for the Welsh Kale dialect is go. The web course and ebook cost $5 US and it looks worthwhile.

http://www.welshkale.com/registration

John Roberts Heritage Fund

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Do you like Romani music? I do a lot. Both of my grandfathers played in this band. If you like what you hear. Feel free to to download and share these songs with your friends.