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Bibliography of Modern Romani Linguistics
Including a guide to Romani linguistics
The interest in Romani, the language of the Roma or "Gypsies", has grown considerably in recent years. Romani has drawn attention from a.o. grammarians, sociolinguists, Indologists, language contact researchers, language planners, educators, typologists and historical linguists.
This Indic language is spoken by between five and ten million people world-wide. The bibliography also covers two other Indic languages spoken by peripatetic groups, Dom or Domari from the Middle East, and Lomavren or Bosha of Eastern Turkey and Armenia.
The bibliography contains over 2500 titles in more than thirty languages, published between 1900 to 2003. English translations are provided for all titles written in less common languages. There are indexes for general and linguistic terms, Romani varieties, other languages and geographical terms.
The book further contains a very useful "Guide to Romani Linguistics", which should enable newcomers to enter this highly interesting field by pointing to the essential titles in different subject areas.
[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 28] 2003. xxviii, 366 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction | pp. vii–xv
- 2. Abbreviations used for journal titles | pp. xvi–xviii
- 3. A list of the keywords and their explanation | pp. xix–xxviii
- A guide to Romani linguistics | pp. 1–6
- Bibliography of modern Romani linguistics | pp. 7–336
- Index of linguistic and general terms, Romani varieties, other languages and geographical terms | p. 337
- Index of general terms | pp. 339–348
- Index of Romani varieties | pp. 349–354
- Index of languages | pp. 355–357
- Index of geographical names | pp. 358–365
“As Romani is increasingly becoming a language of interest to linguists, this bibliography is of valuable service to those interested in Romani linguistics and a welcome contribution to linguists in general.”
Mohammed Sawaie, University of Virginia, in Language Vol. 81:4 (2006)
“This bibliography will be highly instrumental in solidifying the study of Romani.”
L. Zgusta, in American Reference Books Annual, Vol. 36 (2005)
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Cited by three other publications
Arvaniti, Amalia
Bakker, Peter
2013. Review of Matras (2010): Romani in Britain. The afterlife of a language. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:1 ► pp. 198 ff.
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