ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
Cerhari
Classification:
Northern Central
Country:
Romania
Major contact language:
Romanian
Location:
Cluj
Literature:
Mészáros, György. 1976. The Cerhāri Gipsy dialect. Acta Orientalia Acade­miae Scientiarum Hungaricae 30: 351-367.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 o djes
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 anre
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 manro
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 aver
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 hom-as khere
am.1SG-REM at.home
I came home
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 av-il-jom khere
come-PAST-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 kada hin jek ciron-o čhavo
this is INDEF small-M boy
I was playing with my brother
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 khel-a-as man munr-e phral-ehǝ
play-1SG-REM me.OBL my-OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 kam-es te khel-es tut kol-e štar-e čhaj-anca?
want-2SG COMP play-2SG you.OBL those-OBL four-OBL girl-PL.F.INSTR
No one uses this anymore
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 khajdženo namaj polos-in-el kode
nobody no.more use-LOAN-3SG that
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 kola soba le duj-e čhaj-angr-i hin zuran cinoj-i
that room ART.PL.OBL two-OBL sister-PL.F.GEN-F is very small-F