ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
WEST FINNISH
Classification:
Northwestern
Country:
Finland
Major contact language:
Finnish
Location:
Turku > Helsinki > Stockholm
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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 kahjengjere
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 mãro
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 vauro
day chicken.PL.GEN.PL bread other
I was at home
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 me āht-om cēr
I was-1SG home
I came home
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 me aij-om cēr
I came-1SG home
This is a small boy
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 tauva hin pesko cau
this is small boy
I was playing with my brother
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 me leij-at-omm-as mango phāl-es
I play-LOAN.PAST-1SG-REM my brother-OBL
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 kamm-eh-a ko tu leij-av-el lessa?
want-2SG-IND COMP you play-LOAN-INF him.INSTR
No one uses this anymore
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 nā kōn nā putite cēr-el-a cī tōl-eha
NEG anyone NEG more do-3SG-IND nothing that-INSTR
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 mango tui phēn-esko cēr hine pesko
my two sister-M.GEN house is small