ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
URSARI
Classification:
Balkan
Country:
Romania
Major contact language:
Romanian
Location:
Maglavit, Dolj region (South Romania)
Literature:
Boretzky, Norbert. 1999. Die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen den Südbalkanischen Romani-Dialekten. Mit einem Kartenanhang. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Constantinescu, Barbu. 1878. Probe de limba şi literatura Ţiganilor din România. Bucureşti: Typografia Societăţii Academice Române.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 djes
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 varo
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 maro
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 avertimiso
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 som-as khǝre
am.1SG-REM at.home
I came home
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 al-jom khǝre
came-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 adavka si jekh tikn-o čhao
this is INDEF small-M boy
I was playing with my brother
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 khel-au-as mange me phral-esa
play-1SG-REM me.DAT my.OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 kam-es te khel-es tuke adalk-e štar-e čhaj-or-jenca romnja?
want-2SG COMP play-2SG you.DAT these-OBL four-OBL girl-DIMIN- PL.F.INSTR Gypsy.women
No one uses this anymore
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 nikhonik ni maj folos-iz-el odojka
nobody NEG more use-LOAN-3SG that
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 e kamera me duj-e phen-jengir-i si prja tikn-or-i
ART.F room my.OBL two-OBL sister-PL.F.GEN-F is very small-DIMIN-F