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Romani Dialectology
The chapter covers the major issues in Romani dialectology. After a brief discussion of the extent and parameters of cross-dialect variation in...
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Romani Lexicon
This chapter discusses the Romani lexicon from a historical-linguistic perspective. It deals with the stratification of the Romani lexicon and the...
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Romani Morphology
The chapter presents a synchronic overview of the morphological structure of Romani, taking into account its cross-dialectal variation. The chapter...
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Romani Language Literature
This chapter proposes a four-stage periodization of Romani language literature development. It provides a basis for analysing how national context(s)...
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Romani Phonology
The chapter serves as a descriptive introduction to the complex sound system of the Romani language. It provides an outline of the core phoneme...
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Para-Romani Varieties
Para-Romani is a generic term for a set of contact varieties, in which most of the lexicon is from Romani, but most of the grammatical system is from...
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Romani on the Internet
This chapter describes Romani usage on different Internet platforms, distinguishing between earlier (Web 1.0) and more recent (Web 2.0) technologies....
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Romani and Contact Linguistics
Language contact is to a great extent constitutive of Romani. In particular, Romani is associated with some cross-linguistically rare outcomes as it...
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The Historical Origins of Romani
The chapter provides an up-to-date introduction to the origins of the Romani language and its genetic affiliation and relationships to other...
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Romani in Child-Directed Speech
The chapter covers several issues connected with acquisition of languages in (Para-)Romani-speaking communities (see also Bakker, this volume). The...
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Romani Syntactic Typology
The chapter presents an overview of the principal syntactic-typological features of Romani dialects, building on Matras (2002, Chapter 7) and drawing...
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Romani Bible Translation and the Use of Romani in Religious Contexts
This chapter offers an overview of past and present Romani Bible translation activities and resultant products and compares developments in this...
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Language Policy and Planning in Romani
This chapter outlines language policy and planning (LLP) efforts in Romani, where linguistic, geographical and sociocultural heterogeneity pose...
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The Impact of Hungarian on Romani
The chapter provides an overview of historical and current research on Hungarian-induced linguistic changes on Romani phonology, morphology and...
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The Impact of Turkish on Romani
The impact of Turkish on Romani is limited, for the most part, to those dialects spoken on the territory of the former Ottoman Empire, and is similar...
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The Impact of Slavic Languages on Romani
The chapter gives an overview of the impact the Slavic languages have had on the Romani dialects in Eastern, Southeastern and Central Europe. All...
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Historical Sources on the Romani Language
This chapter discusses the first written attestations of Romani language, from the Collectanea of Johannes ex Graffing (1515) to the publication of...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics
Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and...
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Language Rights and the Law in Sweden
This chapter studies the ways in which Sweden addresses the language rights of the Swedish-speaking majority vis-à-vis linguistic minorities. First,...
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Introduction
Popular images of the Romani language are often wrapped in the mystique that surrounds perceptions of the Romani people as supposedly hidden,...