Rumelian Romani

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Rumelian Romani
Native toformer Ottoman Rumelia
Ethnicity Muslim Roma
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog pasp1238
Romany dialects Balkan.svg

Rumelian Romani is a dialect of Southern Balkan Romani of strong Turkish pronunciation with Turkish and Greek loanwords, it was historically spoken by Muslim Romani people (Xoraxane) in Ottoman Rumelia, especially by the Sedentary Rumelian Romani people of various groups in Edirne in East Thrace [1] First described by Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname in 1668, of the Muslim Roma in Gümülcine, and later by William Marsden in 1785 and by Alexandros Georgios Paspatis (Paspati), a scholar of the Romani language in 1870. [2] [3] This Romani dialect is almost extinct in East Thrace, but still spoken by Muslim Roma in West Thrace and some other parts of the Balkans. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Rumelian Sedentary: Dialect Sampler, Romani Dialects Interactive - ROMANI Project Manchester". romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  2. ↑ Friedman, Victor A.; Dankoff, Robert (1991). "The Earliest Text in Balkan (Rumelian) Romani: A Passage from Evliya Çelebi's Seyahat nameh" (PDF). Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. Fifth Series. 1 (1): 1–20.
  3. ↑ Paspati, A. G.; Hamlin, C. (1860). "Memoir on the Language of the Gypsies, as Now Used in the Turkish Empire". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 7: 143–270. doi: 10.2307/592158 . JSTOR   592158 .
  4. ↑ Adamou, Evangelia; Arvaniti, Amalia (2014). "Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 44 (2): 223–231. doi: 10.1017/S0025100313000376 . ISSN   0025-1003. S2CID   143602944.
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