Rumelian Romani

Rumelian Romani
Rumelian Romani
Native to	former Ottoman Rumelia
Ethnicity	Muslim Romani people
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Zone Romani Rumelian Romani; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rmn
Glottolog	balk1252

Rumelian Romani is a dialect of Romani with strong Turkish pronunciation and many Turkish loanwords, once was spoken by the Muslim Roma in Ottoman Rumelia, especially by the Sedentary Rumelian Romani people of various groups in Edirne.^[1] First described by Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname in 1668, of the Muslim Roma in Gümülcine, and later by William Marsden in 1785 and by Alexandros Georgios Paspatis (Paspati), a scholar of the Romani language in 1870.^[2] This Romani dialect is almost extinct in Turkey, but still spoken by Muslim Roma in Western Thrace today.^[3]

References[]

^ "Rumelian Sedentary: Dialect Sampler, Romani Dialects Interactive - ROMANI Project Manchester". romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
^ Friedman, Victor A.; Dankoff, Robert (1991). "The Earliest Text in Balkan (Rumelian) Romani: A Passage from Evliya Çelebi's Seyahat nameh" (PDF). Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Fifth Series). 1 (1): 1–20.
^ Adamou, Evangelia; Arvaniti, Amalia (2014). "Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 44 (2): 223–231. doi:10.1017/S0025100313000376. ISSN 0025-1003. S2CID 143602944.

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[1] "Rumelian Sedentary: Dialect Sampler, Romani Dialects Interactive - ROMANI Project Manchester". romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-06.

[2] Friedman, Victor A.; Dankoff, Robert (1991). "The Earliest Text in Balkan (Rumelian) Romani: A Passage from Evliya Çelebi's Seyahat nameh" (PDF). Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Fifth Series). 1 (1): 1–20.

[3] Adamou, Evangelia; Arvaniti, Amalia (2014). "Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 44 (2): 223–231. doi:10.1017/S0025100313000376. ISSN 0025-1003. S2CID 143602944.

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