ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
POLSKA ROMA
Classification:
Northeastern
Country:
Poland
Major contact language:
Polish
Location:
Pabianice (just South of Lodz, Central Poland)
Literature:
Matras, Yaron. 1999. The speech of the Polska Roma: Some highlighted features and their implications for Romani dialectology. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, fifth series, 9: 1-28.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 dyves
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 jaro
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 maro
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 vavir
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 me som-es khere
I am.1SG-REM at.home
I came home
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 me jav-jom khere
I come-PAST.1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 dava sy tykn-o čhav-or-o
this is small-M boy-DIMIN-M
I was playing with my brother
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 me bav-in-av-ys man mir-e pšał-esa
I play-LOAN-1SG-REM me.OBL my-OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 kam-es dał-e štar-e čhaj-or-jenca te bav-in-eł pes?
want-2SG these-OBL four-OBL girl-DIMIN-PL.F.INSTR COMP play-LOAN-INF REFL
No one uses this anymore
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 njiko na kam-eł dava
nobody NEG want-3SG this
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 pokojo mir-e phen-jengr-o sy tykn-o
room my-OBL sister-PL.F.GEN-M is very small-M