ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
XORAXANE
Classification:
Balkan (zis)
Country:
Bulgaria
Major contact language:
Bulgarian, Turkish
Location:
Shumen
Literature:
Boretzky, Norbert. 2000. South Balkan II as a Romani dialect branch: Bugurdži, Drindari, and Kalajdži. Romani Studies, fifth series, 10: 105-183.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 zis
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 aro
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 maro
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 vaver
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 me sijom-as khere
I am.1SG-REM at.home
I came home
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 me aj-om khere
I came-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 kova sine čikn-o xordo
that is small-M boy
I was playing with my brother
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 me khel-av-as me-e phal-esa
I play-1SG-REM my-OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 tu mang-es-a mı kal-e dört-tane čingene kızınnan te khel-es?
you want-2SG-IND QUE these-OBL four-piece Gypsy girls.INSTR(TURK) COMP play-2SG
No one uses this anymore
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 kal-es khonik ne ispolzva-l veči
this-OBL nobody NEG use-3SG already
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 me phij-enge o kher sijas-as but čikn-o
my.OBL sister-PL.DAT ART.M house was-REM very small-M