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Romany
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Romany , language belonging to the Dardic group...languages). The mother tongue of the Gypsies , Romany has about 2 million speakers, largely outside...groups in the Western Hemisphere as well. Romany has three main dialectal groups: Asian...
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Romany Rye, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Romany Rye, The, a novel by Borrow , published 1857. ‘Romany Rye’ in gypsy language means ‘Gypsy Gentleman’, a name applied to Borrow from his youth by Ambrose Smith, the Norfolk gypsy. This book...
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Vlach Gypsies of Hungary
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Vlach Gypsies are one branch of the Romany-speaking Gypsies who lived for several...Hungary. Linguistic Affiliation. Rom speak Romany (also spelled "Romani") or Romanes as they say. The vocabulary items of the Romany spoken by any one group of Rom are deeply...
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Shelta Thari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...George Borrow, the first authority on Romany and Gypsy lore, had never stumbled upon...wanderer who heard them conversing in Romany. Leland questioned the man as to how...minklers' thari. I thought as you knew Romany, you might understand it. The right...
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Spanish Rom
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Affiliation. Gypsies generally speak Romany, which is classified by linguists as...European Language Family. The varieties of Romany that the Rom speak are called the Vlach dialects. Vlach Romany has a conservative Indic basic vocabulary...
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Gypsies
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...themselves as Roma. Their language, called Romany , belongs to the Indo-Iranian family...Bibliography: See G. Borrow, The Romany Rye (1857, new ed. 1949, repr. 1959...Gipsy Petulengro's autobiography, A Romany Life (1935); J. Yoors, The Gypsies...
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Irish Travelers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Shelta, derived from Irish Gaelic, Romanes (the Language of Romany Gypsies), and English. Travelers use their Cant among themselves...other Irish itinerants in the mule business, and more rarely, Romany Gypsies they encountered in their travels. Before the Civil...
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Austria
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies
...including the Neo-Latins, Slavs, Magyars, Croats, Hungarians, Romany, Sinti, Czechs, and Slovaks. Burgenland province is home...Carinthia and in some villages in the southern part of Styria. Romany and Sinti live mostly in Burgenland and to some extent in Vienna...
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Borrow, George Henry
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...1841), The Bible in Spain (1834), Lavengro (1851), The Romany Rye (1857), and Wild Wales (1862). His works have a peculiar...which often temporarily frustrated him. In Lavengro, The Romany Rye , and The Bible in Spain fact is inextricably combined with...
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ROMANI
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
ROMANI, also Romany . 1. A member of the Romani community, c. 6–10m worldwide...500 people mainly in Wales, to Anglo-Romani , Angloromani , Anglo-Romany , or Romani English , spoken by some 80,000 around the country, not...
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