Research Projects
Place, mobility and dialect differentiation in Romani
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Project description
The project explores the linguistic features of the dialects of the Romani language, and their distribution in geographical space. It draws on the RMS (Romani Morpho-Syntax) database, which is being re-programmed for this purpose and will be made fully accessible to users via a new web interface. An interactive web application is being designed, which will allow users to search and locate on a map different dialectal variants, and to explore how variants cluster in particular regions. Examples sentences and words with sound files will also be made available, to give impressions of dialectal variation within Romani. From the distribution of linguistic forms among the dialects it will be possible to make inferences about social-historical contacts among the Romani communities, and about their migration patterns.The web resource will thus be of interest both to linguists, and to historians and ethnographers interested in the differentiation within Romani communities in Europe.
For a preview of some of the web resource features in preparation follow the link to Database & Maps.
Database & Maps
This section allows a preview of some of the functions of the planned interactive web resources, which is currently under construction. You can
- search a Sample database containing full grammatical information and sample phrases on a selection of Romani dialects
- view a Dialect sampler map, obtain information on individual dialects, view and listen to sample phrases from the Romani Dialectological Questionnair
- view Maps of dialectal variants displaying the geographical distribution of some salient structures;
- create your own dialect classification by experimenting with different Map combinations;
Staff
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Professor Yaron Matras |
Chris White |
Charlotte Jones |
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Hazel Gardner |
Ruth Hill |
Veronica Schulman |
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Christa Schubert |
Sponsor and partnerships
The project is being supported by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), grant number RES-000-23-1133 (June 2005 - May 2008).
The project is part of an international network of research projects in Romani linguistics, which include Romlex, the ROMANI-Projekt Graz, and Rombase