Rumelian Romani

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Rumelian Romani
Native toformer Ottoman Rumelia
Ethnicity Muslim Roma
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog pasp1238
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Rumelian Romani is a dialect of Southern Balkan Romani of strong Turkish pronunciation with Turkish and Greek loanwords, once was spoken by the Turkish-Muslim Roma (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 Turkey, but still spoken by Muslim Roma in Western Thrace today. [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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