ROMANI DIALECTS INTERACTIVE
Dialect sampler
Name of dialect:
GURBET
Classification:
Southern Vlax
Country:
Serbia
Major contact language:
Serbian
Location:
Beograd
Literature:
Ackerley, Frederick George. 1941. Bosnian Romani: prolegomena. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society third series, 20: 84–99.
Samples:
day
egg
bread
other
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 dźes
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 ãřo
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 marno
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 dujto
day egg bread other
I was at home
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 me sem-a ćhere
I am.1SG-REM at.home
I came home
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 me av-il-em ćhere
I come-PAST-1SG at.home
This is a small boy
.
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 kaa si cikn-o čhavro
this is small-M boy
I was playing with my brother
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 me ćhel-d-em man mr-e phral-eha
I play-PAST-1SG me.OBL my-OBL brother-INSTR
Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls?
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 dali mandź-es te ćhel-es tu koj trin romn-janca?
QUE want-2SG COMP play-2SG you those three women-PL.F.INSTR
No one uses this anymore
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 khonik kaa ni korist-il
nobody this NEG use-3SG
The room of my two sisters is very small
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 e soba si cikn-i mur-e duj-e phej-enge
ART.F room is small-F my-OBL two-OBL sister-PL.DAT