ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
ERLI
Classification:
Balkan
Country:
Bulgaria
Major contact language:
Bulgarian
Location:
Sofia
Literature:
Igla, Birgit. 1998. Das Sofioter Erli heute. Studii Romani 5/6: 161-174.; Calvet, Georges. 1982. Lexique tsigane. Dialecte des Erlides de Sofia. Paris: Publications Orientalistes de France.
Minkov, Michael. 1997. A concise grammar of West Bulgarian Romani. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, fifth series, 7: 55-95.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 dies
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 aro
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 maro
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 aver
day egg bread other
I was at home
me ul-jom khere
I was-1SG at.home
I came home
me al-jom khere
I came-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 adavka si cikn-o čho.
this is small-M boy
I was playing with my brother
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 me khel-av-as mange me phral-esa.
I play-1SG-REM me.DAT my.OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 tu mang-es li te khel-es kalk-e štar-e čhaj-enca?
you want-2SG QUE COMP play-2SG these-OBL four-OBL girl-PL.INSTR
No one uses this anymore
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 nikoj veče na ker-el buti kalk-esa.
nobody already NEG do-3SG work this-INSTR
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 i odaja me do phen-jengir-i si but cikn-i.
ART.F room my.OBL two.OBL sister-PL.GEN-F is very small-F