ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
YERLI
Classification:
Balkan
Country:
Bulgaria
Major contact language:
Bulgarian
Location:
Velingrad
Literature:
Igla, Birgit. 1997. The Romani dialect of the Rhodopes. In: Matras, Yaron, Bakker, Peter, and Kyuchukov, Hristo. eds. The typology and dialectology of Romani. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 147-158.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 divǝs
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 jaro
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 maro
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 avǝr
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 mǝ ul-jom khǝrǝ.
I was-1SG at.home
I came home
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 mǝ pribir-isajl-jom khǝrǝ.
I come-LOAN.PAST-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 kǝfka si ek cikn-o čhavo.
this is INDEF small-M boy
I was playing with my brother
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 khǝl-av-as mǝ phral-ǝsa.
play-1SG-REM my.OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 mang-ǝs-a li tǝ khǝl-ǝs tukǝ khǝlka štar-ǝ roman-ǝ čha-enca?
want-2SG-IND QUE COMP play-2SG you.DAT these four-OBL Gypsy-OBL girl-PL.INSTR
No one uses this anymore
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 veče nikon na ispolzav-in-ǝl kǝfka.
already nobody NEG use-LOAN-3SG this
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 o staja mǝ duj phǝn-engir-i si but cikn-i.
ART room my.OBL two sister-PL.GEN-F is very small-F