FROM IBERIAN ROMANI TO IBERIAN PARA-ROMANI VARIETIES

ZUZANA KRINKOVÁ

KAROLINUM

From Iberian Romani to Iberian Para-Romani Varieties

PhDr. Mgr. Zuzana Krinková, Ph.D.

Reviewed by:

Doc. Mgr. Ivo Buzek, Ph.D. (Olomouc, Czech Republic)

Prof. Dr. Ignasi-Xavier Adiego-Lajara (Barcelona, Spain)

Jorge M. F. Bernal (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Published by Charles University in Prague

Karolinum Press

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Proof-read by Pearl Harris

Cover by Jan Šerých

First edition

© Charles University in Prague, 2015

© Zuzana Krinková, 2015

ISBN 978-80-246-2936-9

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1. Cover Page

2. Title Page

3. Imprint

4. Table of Contents

5. List of Tables and Figures

6. List of Abbreviations

7. Introduction

8. 1 - Several Notes on Romani

1. 1.1 - Proto-Romani, Early Romani, Common Romani

2. 1.2 - Classification of Romani Dialects

3. 1.3 - Para-Romani Varieties

1. 1.3.1 - Delimitation of Para-Romani Varieties

2. 1.3.2 - Language Structure of Para-Romani Varieties

3. 1.3.3 - Genesis of Para-Romani Varieties

4. 1.3.4 - Examples of Para-Romani Varieties

9. 2 - Romani Language on the Iberian Peninsula

1. 2.1 - The History of Romani Language in the Iberian Peninsula

2. 2.2 - Classification of the Iberian Romani Dialect and Diversification of Iberian Para-Romani Varieties

3. 2.3 - Present Situation of Iberian Para-Romani Varieties

1. 2.3.1 - Caló

2. 2.3.2 - Basque Para-Romani

3. 2.3.3 - Catalan Para-Romani

10. 3 - Sources Needed when Studying Caló and Other Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

1. 3.1 - Introduction

2. 3.2 - The Survey of Sources

1. 3.2.1 - The Sources Needed when Studying Caló

2. 3.2.2 - Sources Needed when Studying Catalan (Para-)Romani

3. 3.2.3 - The Sources Needed when Studying Basque Para-Romani

4. 3.2.4 - The Sources Needed when Studying Brazilian Para-Romani

11. 4 - Linguistic Description of Iberian Para-Romani Varieties

1. 4.1 - Several Comments on Spelling and Phonetic Transcription

1. 4.1.1 - Spelling Peculiarities of Spanish Caló

2. 4.1.2 - Spelling Peculiarities of Catalan (Para-)Romani

3. 4.1.3 - Spelling Peculiarities of Basque (Para-)Romani

2. 4.2 - Phonology

1. 4.2.1 - Vowels

2. 4.2.2 - Glides and Diphthongs

3. 4.2.3 - Consonants

4. 4.2.4 - Sonorants

5. 4.2.5 - Consonant Clusters

3. 4.3 - Sporadic Sound Changes

1. 4.3.1 - Prothesis and Apheresis

2. 4.3.2 - Epenthesis

3. 4.3.3 - Epithesis

4. 4.3.4 - Syncope

5. 4.3.5 - Apocope of Consonants and Syllables

6. 4.3.6 - Vowel Shifts and Alternations

7. 4.3.7 - Consonant Alternations

8. 4.3.8 - Metathesis

9. 4.3.9 - Substitution of Consonants in Consonant Clusters and in Final Position of the Word

10. 4.3.10 - Palatalisation of /di/, /ti/, /ni/, /li/

11. 4.3.11 - Voice Opposition

12. 4.3.12 - Gemination

13. 4.3.13 - Contamination

4. 4.4 - Reflection of Romani Morphology in Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

1. 4.4.1 - Nominal Morphology

2. 4.4.2 - Verbal Morphology

5. 4.5 - Several Notes on Syntax

1. 4.5.1 - The Noun Phrase

2. 4.5.2 - The Verb Phrase

3. 4.5.3 - Possessive Construction

4. 4.5.4 - Negation

6. 4.6 - Vocabulary

1. 4.6.1 - General Issues of Romani Vocabulary

2. 4.6.2 - The Issue of Iberian Para-Romani Vocabulary

3. 4.6.3 - Semantic Domains of Inherited Lexicon and their Representation in Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

4. 4.6.4 - Preserved Loanwords in Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

12. Conclusion

13. References

14. Resumen

15. Index of Languages and Linguistic Terms

16. Appendix: Survey of Romani Etymologies in Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. SEVERAL NOTES ON ROMANI

1.1. Proto-Romani, Early Romani, Common Romani

1.2. Classification of Romani Dialects

1.3. Para-Romani Varieties

1.3.1. Delimitation of Para-Romani Varieties

1.3.2. Language Structure of Para-Romani Varieties

1.3.3. Genesis of Para-Romani Varieties

1.3.4. Examples of Para-Romani Varieties

2. ROMANI LANGUAGE ON THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

2.1. The History of Romani Language in the Iberian Peninsula

2.2. Classification of the Iberian Romani Dialect and Diversification of Iberian Para-Romani Varieties

2.3. Present Situation of Iberian Para-Romani Varieties

2.3.1. Caló

2.3.2. Basque Para-Romani

2.3.3. Catalan Para-Romani

3. SOURCES NEEDED WHEN STUDYING CALÓ AND OTHER IBERIAN (PARA-)ROMANI VARIETIES

3.1. Introduction

3.2. The Survey of Sources

3.2.1. The Sources Needed when Studying Caló

3.2.2. Sources Needed when Studying Catalan (Para-)Romani

3.2.3. The Sources Needed when Studying Basque Para-Romani

3.2.4. The Sources Needed when Studying Brazilian Para-Romani

4. LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION OF IBERIAN PARA-ROMANI VARIETIES

4.1. Several Comments on Spelling and Phonetic Transcription

4.1.1. Spelling Peculiarities of Spanish Caló

4.1.2. Spelling Peculiarities of Catalan (Para-)Romani

4.1.3. Spelling Peculiarities of Basque (Para-)Romani

4.2. Phonology

4.2.1. Vowels

4.2.2. Glides and Diphthongs

4.2.3. Consonants

4.2.4. Sonorants

4.2.5. Consonant Clusters

4.3. Sporadic Sound Changes

4.3.1. Prothesis and Apheresis

4.3.2. Epenthesis

4.3.3. Epithesis

4.3.4. Syncope

4.3.5. Apocope of Consonants and Syllables

4.3.6. Vowel Shifts and Alternations

4.3.7. Consonant Alternations

4.3.8. Metathesis

4.3.9. Substitution of Consonants in Consonant Clusters and in Final Position of the Word

4.3.10. Palatalisation of /di/, /ti/, /ni/, /li/

4.3.11. Voice Opposition

4.3.12. Gemination

4.3.13. Contamination

4.4. Reflection of Romani Morphology in Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

4.4.1. Nominal Morphology

4.4.2. Verbal Morphology

4.5. Several Notes on Syntax

4.5.1. The Noun Phrase

4.5.2. The Verb Phrase

4.5.3. Possessive Construction

4.5.4. Negation

4.6. Vocabulary

4.6.1. General Issues of Romani Vocabulary

4.6.2. The Issue of Iberian Para-Romani Vocabulary

4.6.3. Semantic Domains of Inherited Lexicon and their Representation in Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

4.6.4. Preserved Loanwords in Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

Conclusion

References

Resumen

Index of Languages and Linguistic Terms

Appendix: Survey of Romani Etymologies in Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

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1. Cover Page

2. Begin Reading

3. Copyright Page

4. Table of Contents

5. Introduction

6. Conclusion

7. References

8. Index

9. Appendix

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

Table 1. Models of classification of Romani dialects

Figure 1. North-South division in Romani dialects

Figure 2. Archaic forms of demonstratives in Romani dialects

Table 2. Survey of transcription of chosen sounds

Table 3. Graphic transcription of chosen phonemes in Romani, Spanish, Catalan and Basque

Table 4. Graphic recording of problematic consonants in Catalan (Para-)Romani

Table 5. Graphic recording of problematic consonants in Basque (Para-)Romani

Table 6. Reconstructed phonemes in Early Romani

Table 7. Phonemes in modern Spanish

Table 8. Phonemes in medieval Spanish (beginning of the 15th century)

Table 9. Phonemes in modern Catalan

Table 10. Phonemes in modern Basque

Table 11. Reconstructed nominal stems in Early Romani

Table 12. Agglutinative case markers

Table 13. Adjective inflection

Table 14. Reconstructed forms of definite article in Early Romani

Table 15. Reconstructed deictic and anaphoric expressions in Early Romani

Table 16. Reconstructed forms of personal and possessive pronouns in Early Romani

Table 17. The forms of personal and possessive pronouns in Common Romani

Table 18. Reconstructed interrogative pronouns and adverbs in Early Romani

Table 19. Reconstructed indefinite pronouns in Early Romani

Table 20. Romani numerals documented in Iberian (Para-)Romani varieties

Table 21. Supposed stem types and their perfective markers in Early Romani

Table 22. Paradigm of Romani copula

Table 23. Supposed person concord markers in Early Romani

Table 24. Reconstructed adaptation of loan verbs in Early Romani

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ABL

ablative

ACCUS

accusative

ADJ

adjective

Arab.

Arabic

Balarus.

Belarussian

Basq

Basque (Para-)Romani

Basq.

Basque

Bulg.

Bulgarian

C

consonant

Cat

Catalan (Para-)Romani

Catal.

Catalan

Cr.

Croatian

Cz.

Czech

DAT

dative

Domar.

Domari

F

feminine

Fr.

French

GEN

genitive

Germ.

German

Gr.

Greek

Hind.

Hindi

Hung.

Hungarian

Ind.

Indian

INSTR

instrumental

LOC

locative

Lom.

Lomavren

M

masculine

Maced.

Macedonian

NOM

nominative

OBL

oblique

OIA

Old Indo-Aryan

PART

participle

Per.

Persian

PL

plural

Pol.

Polish

Port.

Portuguese

Rom.

Romani

Roman.

Romanian

Rus.

Russian

Serb.

Serbian

SG

singular

Sk.

Slovak

Sl.

Slovenian

Slav.

Slavic

Span.

Spanish

SUBST

noun

Tur.

Turkish

Ukr.

Ukrainian

V

vowel

Majarados sinareis, pur sangue aborrecieren os manuces, y sangue buchararen de junos, y sangue curararen, y chibaren abrí o nao de sangue, como choro, por o Chaboro e manu.

Embéo e Majaró Lucas, 6:22

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

Gospel according to St. Luke, 6:22

INTRODUCTION

The incentive to write this work came quite by accident several years ago in Valencia when I was scrolling through a dictionary of Spanish argot, in which several words strikingly resembled colloquial expressions I knew from Hungarian. This similarity intrigued me and two years later a sociolinguistically oriented thesis emerged, dealing with a comparison of the occurrence of words of Romani origin in contemporary colloquial Spanish and Hungarian. Of course the work required me to become familiar with at least the basics of the Romani history and language, which I did in the form of self-study. The issue began to intrigue me so much that I decided to continue the idea and pursue a deeper study of the Iberian Romani language, especially Spanish Caló and its influence on the Spanish language. This resulted in the PhD thesis entitled Mutual contact of Romani, Spanish and other languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Krinková 2013b), on which this book is largely based.

I am fully aware that my interest in Iberian Romani, Caló and language contact is far from ground-breaking. This work builds on a number of scientific publications, both from Spanish (C. Clavería, currently I.-X. Adiego and others) and also from leading European contemporary linguists dealing with Romani, such as N. Boretzky and P. Bakker. In the Czech Republic, the issue of Gitanisms and dictionaries of Caló are dealt with by I. Buzek (e.g. La imagen del gitano en la lexicografía española, 2010). An overview of the available resources on Iberian Para-Romani varieties is provided in a separate chapter.

The works to which I refer are mainly articles or partial studies only dealing with selected issues of the relevant theme. However, unlike the aforementioned works, this book provides the first systematic and comprehensive processing of the grammar and vocabulary of Iberian Romani and Para-Romani varieties.

At the forefront of my interest are varieties of Romani that developed in the Iberian Peninsula after the arrival of the Roma in the 15th century. To describe these variants, I have used extensive linguistic material (in particular, dictionaries and secondary sources on Iberian Para-Romani), from which I was able to extract a large amount of Romani etymology. Due to my Hispanic qualifications, I focus in particular on Spanish Caló; however, I also deal with other varieties, mainly Catalan and Basque Para-Romani. At times I also mention Brazilian Para-Romani, but do not go into too much detail about it in this work, preferring to refer interested readers to other literature. On the contrary, I pay great attention to a variant documented in Portugal which clearly derives from Southern Spanish Caló. Quite apart from my interest, there are the inflectional Romani dialects, which arrived in Spain with the more recent waves of Roma immigration during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The first chapter aims to briefly introduce the reader to the issues of the Romani language and Romani linguistics. Unless otherwise stated, I refer here mainly to the introduction to Romani linguistics given by Matras (2002). I clarify certain terms later used (e.g. the term ‘Para-Romani’), and point out the problem areas of contemporary Romani studies which are crucial to this work (e.g. reconstruction of Early Romani, classification of Romani dialects).

My primary hypothesis is that the Roma people brought the Romani dialect to the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th century. This dialect, from the current point of view, is quite conservative, and we can assume that in many respects it was not very different from the (reconstructed, undocumented) phase of so-called ‘Early Romani’. Subsequently, I look at phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical developments from this archaic inflectional Iberian Romani to the Para-Romani varieties.

In the chapter on Phonology, I characterise the phonetic development of all three of the aforementioned forms of Iberian Para-Romani varieties. I also focus on some as yet unknown or only partially described phenomena (e.g. the development of sibilants and nasalisation). The chapter on Phonology also includes the issue of spelling in Iberian Para-Romani, whose peculiarities can often lead to misinterpretation of the information contained in source material. I also place emphasis on the contact with Spanish and other languages and language variants of the Iberian Peninsula. This language contact has been occurring since the 15th century; for this reason, I take into account not only the current condition of contact languages but also their diachronic evolution, which is particularly important for the phonological subsystem of Iberian Para-Romani varieties.

The chapter devoted to a description of the remnants of the Romani morphological subsystem is quite extensive, due in particular to the fact that Romani morphology is described only very marginally or not at all in the works of Iberian Para-Romani, because for the most part it is no longer productive. In my opinion, however, lexicalised remnants of archaic Romani morphology provide very valuable information, not only for the reconstruction of the inflectional Iberian dialect, but also for the reconstruction of the development of Romani as a whole.

In the chapter on Vocabulary, I deal with the Indian vocabulary and pre-European loanwords, I also pay particular attention to loanwords from the Greek and Slavic languages.

At this point, I would like to thank the people without whom this work would not have been possible, or at least not in its current form. I would firstly like to mention my colleagues from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Associate Professor of Hispanics, Dr Petr Čermák, PhD, Professor Dr Bohumil Zavadil, CSc for their longtime support during my studies and Dr Viktor Elšík, PhD, expert on Romani, for his precious advice. My other thanks belong to the reviewers: Dr Ivo Buzek, PhD, Associate Professor of Hispanics from the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, Dr Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, Full Professor of Indo-European Linguistics from the University of Barcelona and José M. F. Bernal, President of AICRA (Asociación Identidad Cultural Romaní de Argentina). Further I thank Pearl Harris for the revision of the English text. I am also grateful to my husband, Ondřej Krinke, especially for his patience during the creation of this work. I also want to thank my parents, Helena and Michal Čenger, and my sister, Helena Charles, for their long-term support and assistance in looking after my young son.

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SEVERAL NOTES ON ROMANI

1.1 PROTO-ROMANI, EARLY ROMANI, COMMON ROMANI

Contemporary Romani dialects contain a series of conservative and innovative features due to which Romani differs from other modern Indo-Aryan languages, including Indian languages in the diaspora. The entirety of these development features is reflected in the first development phase of Romani as an independent language, which is known as Proto-Romani (cf. Matras 2002; Elšík 2006). Proto-Romani dates to the period when it distinctly diversified itself from other related languages. Nevertheless it is difficult to establish exactly when this happened since no written documentation of this phase has been discovered so far. When reconstructing it is necessary to make use of a comparison of related words of old Indo-Aryan languages and their modern Indian successors in the region of India and in the diaspora with present-day Romani dialects. Romani shares a part of language changes with the other languages in the territory of India; some changes are shared by Romani and Indian languages in the diaspora (e.g. Domari or Lomavren) and other changes are typical only for Romani.

As an example of the reconstruction of the Proto-Romani form there is an oblique case of the demonstrative SG.M *otas > oles, SG.F *ota > ola, even though the forms oles and ola have been preserved only in a few Romani dialects. The reconstructed forms can be however supported by other proofs: 1) they appear in a more recent form as od-oles, od-ola, 2) they survive in the contracted form les, la in oblique case of the pronoun of 3SG, 3) they correspond with the Domari demonstratives SG.M oras, SG.F ora and 4) the old Indian demonstrative stem t- is well attested and the change of the old Indian /t/ > /l/ (/t/ > /r/ in Domari) is regular.

Another phase, and much better documentable, is Early Romani (cf. Matras 2002; Elšík 2006). It is characteristic due to its adoption of productive Greek morphology (called athematic or xenoclitic morphology) applied mainly to loanwords and other structural innovations drawing from contact with Greek, such as the emergence of the preposed definite article.[1] Early Romani is not documented in the written form; however its birth dates back to the Byzantine period of around the 10th or 11th century. The period of Early Romani ends with a rise in the present dialects and their dispersal in Europe and it is dated on the basis of hints in historical sources to the 14th century. The Early Romani forms are conservative structures that have survived so far only in some dialects.

A good example of an Early Romani structure is a set of demonstratives adava/akava. These forms are recorded both in the most western Romani dialect in Wales and in one of the most eastern dialects, Southern Balkan Arli (and, as I state further on, also in Iberian Romani). In other contemporary dialects we may find simplified and reduced forms such as dava/kava or ada/aka or innovative forms such as kado/kako.

In Early Romani we may in phonology assume a phoneme/ř/ (e.g. in the word řom ‘Rom’) the phonetic quality of which is unknown. It could also be the uvular/R/ which has survived so far e.g. in Kelderaš Romani or the Proto-Romani retroflex /ḍ/ > /*ḷ, *ṛ/ (cf. Indo-Aryan ḍom). In many Romani dialects then this /ř/ has merged with /r/.

One of the most important tasks that contemporary comparative Romani dialectology has to face is to state which elements from present-day Romani dialects can be dated to the period of Early Romani or even Proto-Romani. On the other hand it may seem that many forms and structures have been carried over from the Early Romani period in an almost unchanged form, since they are shared by most of the dialects. In this work, I shall refer to these forms as representing Common Romani (cf. Matras 2002). It is, for example, the numeral oxtó ‘eight’ (from Greek oxtó) which is only in a few dialects changed to ofto.

1.2 CLASSIFICATION OF ROMANI DIALECTS

The problem of classification of Romani dialects is considerably complex. Members of the Roma ethnic groups live not only in different parts of Europe, but also in the Near East, Central Asia, America etc. The Roma settlement in Europe is uneven and it does not make a language continuum in the right sense of the word. Whereas in some regions there is a high density of the Roma population and we may find in one state a great number of Roma groups which differ regarding language and culture (e.g. the Balkans and Central Europe), other regions are relatively homogeneous and the concentration of the Roma ethnics is lower here (e.g. Western Europe). In addition some Roma subgroups do not speak Romani.

When classifying Romani dialects it is necessary to especially take into account Roma migration, contact with surrounding languages and also contact among particular Roma subgroups. Roma migration into Europe started from the Balkans in the 14th and 15th centuries and has been in operation to a greater or lesser extent till now. The Roma population has always been in contact with the language of the surrounding population of the region they have lived in. This contact with the majority population was then a source of lexical loanwords and structural innovations in all language levels.

It is necessary to note that many linguists dealing with Romani did not include in their classification the Iberian varieties of Romani (respectively also other Romani dialects of the peripheral areas). Iberian Romani is according to Boretzky and Igla (1991), Bakker and Matras (1997) classed into the Northern branch which is however very diversified.

As a better illustration here I present a table of the geographical classification of Romani dialects[2] with brief characteristics of the main branches.

For the dialects of the Balkan branch a strong Greek influence is evident which survived much longer than in the dialects that left the Balkan; further on there is also the Turkish influence. Many speakers of Balkan dialects are Muslims and many have an active command of Turkish. Dialects can be found among others also in the region of Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo and Bulgaria. The speakers of the dialects of the Balkan branch, especially Arli can be found also in Western Europe where they emigrated between the 1960s and 1990s.

Vlax (Olah) branch is probably the most prominent of the Romani dialects, if we take into account the number of speakers, geographical classification and the vast documentation. This group was probably born in the Romanian speaking region. Vlax dialects do share a strong influence of Romanian on the vocabulary, phonology and adopted morphology and a number of internal innovations. During the course of history there have been several migration waves of Vlax Roma people from Romanian principalities; the most significant one is connected with the abolishment of serfdom in Romania and it lasted till the second half of the 19th century. Some dialects have been strongly influenced by Hungarian (Lovara). Vlax dialects can be found in many parts of Europe, especially in the region of Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia and Turkey. Northern The Vlax group is spread throughout Western Europe and also throughout Central Europe.

The Central branch form the dialects found in the Central European region. The Northern Central one is East Slovakian Romani, which is at present the most widespread Romani dialect in Czech Republic. Southern Central dialects embody a strong influence of Hungarian.

Other dialects are usually classed within the Northern branch. The North Western group are the Sinti-Manuš dialects which were probably born in the German speaking territory and which show a strong influence of German and share a lot of innovations. These dialects are related to dialects in Scandinavia. The North Eastern group are the dialects in the region of Poland, the Baltic region and northern Russia that also makes a coherent dialectical group. Relatively isolated are the dialects of the British and Iberian group that have become largely extinct and their remains have survived in the form of a special lexicon.

In the Northern branch there are many archaisms and some innovations to be found, some of which we may also find in the Iberian varieties of Romani. Specific sociolinguistic strategies are typical for the Northern branch. There is a substitution of the ethnic term Roma with another ethnonym (Kale, Manuš, Sinti, Romaničal), making of special Romani toponyms, use of nominalised genitives when creating new words (as an alternative for loanwords) and, also, the fact that the dialects of this branch are often replaced with Para-Romani varieties (see further). These features can be explained by means of a social and geographical isolation of groups and their dependence upon Romani as a secret language.

In this work I follow a relatively recent classification of dialects from a geographical-historical perspective as described by Matras (2005). The classification is based upon a premise that the borders in between particular dialects are not absolute – based strictly upon genetic criteria in the form of a historical migration of individual sub-categories – but relative ones. Some dialects do share more common features and are thus much closer to each other than others. The structural features that differentiate the dialects are also a result of the process of changes and innovations which spread from one community to another. The results of these changes can then be marked on the map by means of isoglosses. The classification thus also takes into account, apart from the migration, a mutual contact with neighbouring Roma groups. Romani dialects, then, form a specific language continuum that reflects a historical spreading of structural innovations on the one hand, and the preservation of archaisms in time and space on the other.

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Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Imprint

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 - Several Notes on Romani

1.1 - Proto-Romani, Early Romani, Common Romani

1.2 - Classification of Romani Dialects

1.3 - Para-Romani Varieties

2 - Romani Language on the Iberian Peninsula

2.3 - Present Situation of Iberian Para-Romani Varieties

3 - Sources Needed when Studying Caló and Other Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

3.2 - The Survey of Sources

4 - Linguistic Description of Iberian Para-Romani Varieties

4.1 - Several Comments on Spelling and Phonetic Transcription

4.2 - Phonology

4.3 - Sporadic Sound Changes

4.4 - Reflection of Romani Morphology in Iberian (Para-)Romani Varieties

4.5 - Several Notes on Syntax

4.6 - Vocabulary