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The chapter gives an overview of the impact the Slavic languages have had on the Romani dialects in Eastern, Southeastern and Central Europe. All Romani dialects in Europe have been in contact with South Slavic languages in the Balkans. Later contact-induced changes in Romani differ. Romani dialects influenced by Russian or Polish adopt Slavic aspect prefixes whereas Romani dialects on the Balkans adapt other features more typical of the South Slavic languages. The chapter describes regional differences and similarities taking into consideration lexicon, phonology, morphology and syntax.
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Meyer, AM. (2020). The Impact of Slavic Languages on Romani. In: Matras, Y., Tenser, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28105-2_9
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