ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
SOFADES
Classification:
Balkan
Country:
Greece
Major contact language:
Greek
Location:
Sofades (Thessalia region, Karditsa county)
Literature:
Matras, Yaron. 2004. Romacilikanes - the Romani dialect of Parakalamos. Romani Studies, fifth series, 14: 59-109.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 disara
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 vandro
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 mandro
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 javer
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 som-as khere
am.1SG-REM at.home
I came home
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 av-il-om khere
come-PAST-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 akava isi jektano xurd-o čhavo
this is INDEF small-M boy
I was playing with my brother
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 khel-av-as me phral-ehar
play-1SG-REM my.OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 mang-es-a te khel-es me ta štar čhaja?
want-2SG-IND COMP play-2SG with(GREEK) ART.PL(GREEK) four girls
No one uses this anymore
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 ič dženo na xrisimopi-i adava
no person NEG use-3SG(GREEK) this
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 o δomatjos e duj-e phral-eng-o isi but xurd-o
ART.M room ART.OBL two-OBL brother-PL.GEN-M is very small-M