ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
EAST FINNISH
Classification:
Northwestern
Country:
Finland
Major contact language:
Finnish
Location:
Lahti (100 km NE of Helsinki)
Literature:
van der Voort, Hein. 1991. The Romani dialects of the Finnish Gypsies. In: Bakker, Peter, and Cortiade, Marcel. eds. 1991. In the margin of Romani. Gypsy languages in contact. Amsterdam: Institute for General Linguistics. 132-151.
Samples:
day egg bread other
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 dīves
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 kahh-engo jārt
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 māro
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 vauro
day chicken-PL.GEN egg bread other
I was at home
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 me āxt-om mango čēr
I was-1SG my home
I came home
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 aij-omm-as ki mo čēr
came-1SG-REM to my house
This is a small boy
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 taua hin pesko chau
this is small boy
I was playing with my brother
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 me leij-av-av-a phāl-eha
I play-LOAN-1SG-REM brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 tykkyvääskö tu leij-av-el maskar pen tola trī-e cajj-ensa?
want you play-LOAN-INF among REFL.PL those three-OBL girl-PL.INSTR
No one uses this anymore
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 ček na putte na ikkila dauva
nobody NEG more NEG use-3SG this
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 mo duj-e phen-jako hūsa hin pesko
my two-OBL sister-F.GEN room is small