ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
MOLDAVIAN ROMANI
Classification:
Southern Vlax
Country:
Moldova
Major contact language:
Moldavian (Romanian), Russian
Location:
Kishinev
Literature:
Dron, Ion V. 1988. K istorii etnonimii moldavskix cygan. In: Superanskaja, A. V. ed. Onomastika, tipologia, stratigrafia. Moscow: Nauka. 199-209.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 ges
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 anro
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 maro
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 aver
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 me sym-as khəre
I am.1SG-REM at.home
I came home
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 me ail-em khəre
I came-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 gadav-o šaw-or-o cyn-or-o
this-M boy-DIMIN-M small-DIMIN-M
I was playing with my brother
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 me khəl-d-em mange myr-ə phral-esa
I play-PAST-1SG me.DAT my-OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 tu kames te khəl-es tukǝ gudul-enca štar-enca rom-eng-ə šuw-ur-anca?
you want-2SG COMP play-2SG you.DAT those- PL.INSTR four- INSTR Gypsy- PL.GEN-PL girl-DIMIN- PL.F.INSTR
No one uses this anymore
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 khonik majbut gadal-asa ni folos-yl pe
nobody more this-INSTR NEG use-3SG REFL
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 o khər-or-o myr-ə do phej-ang-o prja cyn-or-o
ART.M house-DIMIN-M my-OBL two.OBL sister-PL.F.GEN-M very small-DIMIN-M