ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
ARLI
Classification:
Balkan
Country:
Macedonia
Major contact language:
Macedonian
Location:
Shutka (in Skopje)
Literature:
Boretzky, Norbert. 1999. Die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen den Südbalkanischen Romani-Dialekten. Mit einem Kartenanhang. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 dive
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 jaro
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 maro
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 vaver
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 me injum-ine khere
I am.1SG-REM at.home
I came home
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 al-um khere
came-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 akava etan-o tikn-o čhavo
this is-M small-M boy
I was playing with my brother
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 khel-av-ine me phral-eja
play-1SG-REM my-OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 mang-e te khel-e adal-e štar-e roman-e čhaj-enca?
want-2SG COMP play-2SG these-OBL four-OBL Gypsy-OBL girls-PL.INSTR
No one uses this anymore
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 niko na korist-in-el-a više akava
nobody NEG use-LOAN-3SG-IND already this
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 e soba me duj-e phejn-engir-i tan-i but tikn-i
ART.F room my.OBL two-OBL sister-PL.GEN-F is-F very small-F