Dialects Interactive
Dialect sampler
How to use the dialect sampler map
The map of dialect samples contains points representing dialects spoken in the respective locations. By clicking on a dialect you can open a window that provides the following information:
- Name of the dialect
- Tentative classification by dialect group
- Major contact languages
- Literature references for this or similar dialects
For a selection of dialects you can also view:
- Sample sentences, transcribed and glossed
- Sound files with recordings of these sentences, as pronounced by native speakers of the respective dialects
Glossing
The transcriptions are accompanied by a morpheme-by-morpheme glossing.
Gloss abbreviations
| 1SG | first person singular | LOAN | loan verb marker |
| 2SG | second person singular | LOC | locative |
| 3SG | third person singular | M | masculine |
| ART | definite article | NEG | negation particle |
| COMP | complementiser | OBL | oblique |
| DAT | dative | PAST | past tense |
| DIMIN | diminutive | QUE | question particle |
| DIST | distal marker | REFL | reflexive |
| F | feminine | REL | relative pronoun |
| GEN | genitive | REM | remoteness marker (tense) |
| IND | indicative | SLAV | Slavic aspect |
| INDEF | indefinite article | TURK | Turkish inflection |
| INSTR | instrumental | ||
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Phrase variation
All speakers are asked the same phrases, however there may be some minor variations in the way these phrases are translated by the speaker. See below to view these variations in English.
| Phrase | Variation(s) |
|---|---|
| Other | Something else |
| I was at home | Yesterday I was at home |
| I came home | Yesterday I came home |
| This is a small boy | What a small boy/Such a small boy |
| Do you want to play with those four Gypsy girls? | Do you want to play with these Gypsy girls? |
| Do you want to play with these three Gypsy girls? | |
| Do you want to play with those four women? | |
| Do you want to play with him? | |
| No one uses this any more | No one does this any more |
| No one wants this any more | |
| The room of my two sisters is very small | The room of my two sisters is small |
| The room of my sisters is very small | |
| The house of my two brothers is very small |
Data collection for this section was supported by the Open Society Institute’s Roma Culture Initiative and by the Arts and Humanities Research Board.