Variation and dialect levelling in the Romani dialect of Ţăndărei

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY

Romani Studies Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI:10.3828/RS.2017.10

D. V. Leggio, Y. Matras

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract: The Kangjlari of Ţăndărei in southeastern Romania offer an interesting case study of the consolidation within just a few generations of a new Romani community, as a result of state-sponsored relocation and settlement between 1950 and 1980. We discuss the linguistic implications of the formation of this new community, drawing on language material from questionnaire elicitation and life history interviews among recent migrants now living in the UK, and supported by access to local ethnographic and archive material in the origin community. We show how a process of dialect levelling is underway in the Romani variety spoken by the Roma of Ţăndărei, which resembles cases of koineization discussed for a number of other languages in recent sociolinguistic literature. The stabilization of a particular combination of features means that the variety under discussion cannot be accommodated into current dialect classification models. This has implications for our general understanding of dialect formation in Romani. The paper also offers the very first modern, concise grammatical sketch of a Romani variety from Romania.

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Ţăndărei的罗马语方言的变异和方言水平

摘要:位于罗马尼亚东南部Ţăndărei的Kangjlari提供了一个有趣的案例，研究了在1950年至1980年期间，由于国家资助的搬迁和定居，一个新的罗姆人社区在几代人之内就得到了巩固。我们讨论了这个新社区形成的语言含义，借鉴了问卷调查和生活史访谈中的语言材料，这些语言材料来自现在居住在英国的新移民，并通过访问原始社区的当地民族志和档案材料提供支持。我们展示了在Ţăndărei的罗姆人所说的罗姆语变体中方言水平化的过程是如何进行的，这类似于最近社会语言学文献中讨论的许多其他语言的方言化案例。特定特征组合的稳定性意味着所讨论的多样性不能被容纳到当前的方言分类模型中。这对我们对罗姆语方言形成的一般理解具有启示意义。这篇论文还提供了第一个现代的，简洁的语法草图的罗姆尼变种来自罗马尼亚。

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来源期刊

Romani Studies Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

CiteScore

0.80

自引率

50.00%

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982. In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies. On behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society, Romani Studies features articles on many different communities which, regardless of their origins and self-appellations in various languages, have been referred to in English as Gypsies. These communities include the descendants of migrants from the Indian subcontinent which have been considered as falling into three large subdivisions, Dom, Lom, and Rom. The field has also included communities of other origins which practice, or in the past have practiced, a specific type of service nomadism. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.