Dialects Interactive
Dialect sampler
Structure, glossing, phrases
The dialect sampler map contains points representing dialects spoken in the respective locations. By clicking on a dialect you can open a window that provides the following information:
- Name of the dialect
- Tentative classification by dialect group
- Major contact languages
- Literature references for this or similar dialects
For a selection of dialects you can also view
- Sample sentences, transcribed and glossed
- Sound files with recordings of these sentences, as pronounced by native speakers of the respective dialects
The transcriptions are accompanied by a morpheme-by-morpheme glossing. Click here for a list of gloss abbreviations. The content of the words and sentences are uniform for all dialects, but note that there is some minor variation among the individual Romani translations of the English sentences. Click here to view the variation, in English, between the translations provided by the speakers.
Data collection for this section was supported by the Open Society Institute’s Roma Culture Initiative and by the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
Gloss abbreviations |
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| 1SG | first person singular | LOAN | loan verb marker |
| 2SG | second person singular | LOC | locative |
| 3SG | third person singular | M | masculine |
| ART | definite article | NEG | negation particle |
| COMP | complementiser | OBL | oblique |
| DAT | dative | PAST | past tense |
| DIMIN | diminutive | QUE | question particle |
| DIST | distal marker | REFL | reflexive |
| F | feminine | REL | relative pronoun |
| GEN | genitive | REM | remoteness marker (tense) |
| IND | indicative | SLAV | Slavic aspect |
| INDEF | indefinite article | TURK | Turkish inflection |
| INSTR | instrumental | ||
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Phrase variation |
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| other | |||
| something else | |||
| I was at home | |||
| Yesterday I was at home | |||
| I came home | |||
| Yesterday I came home | |||
| This is a small boy | |||
| What a small boy/Such a small boy | |||
| Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls? | |||
| Do you want to play with these Gypsy girls? | |||
| Do you want to play with these three Gypsy girls? | |||
| Do you want to play with those four women? | |||
| Do you want to play with him? | |||
| No one uses this any more | |||
| No one does this any more | |||
| No one wants this any more | |||
| The room of my two sisters is very small | |||
| The room of my two sisters is small | |||
| The room of my sisters is very small | |||
| The house of two brothers is very small | |||