ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
GURBET-RABEŠTE
Classification:
Southern Vlax
Country:
Serbia
Major contact language:
Serbian
Location:
Aleksandrovo (in Vojvodina)
Literature:
Boretzky, Norbert. 1986. Zur Sprache der Gurbet von Priština (Jugoslawien). Giessener Hefte für Tsiganologie 3: 195-216.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 ges
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 angro
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 mangro
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 kaver
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 me sim-as khere
I am.1SG-REM at.home
I came home
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 me av-il-em khere
I come-PAST-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
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 kava si jek cǝnoř-o bejato
this is INDEF small-M boy
I was playing with my brother
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 me khel-d-em mange mungr-e 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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 kam-es te khel-es tuke kodol-e štar-e čhav-oř-anca?
want-2SG COMP play-2SG you.DAT those-OBL four-OBL girl-DIMIN-PL.F.INSTR
No one uses this anymore
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 khonik kadava či maj korist-il
nobody this NEG more use-3SG
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 e soba mingr-e do phej-ang-i sy cinoř-y
ART.F room my-OBL two.OBL sister-PL.F.GEN-F is small-F