džulory ladžala

wewanttobe:

džulory ladžala: Rromani (Rromanes) word of the day!

helloimlulu:

helloimlulu:

I am going to try to keep up with this, because I want us all to take part!! I am not fluent in Rromani, but I am conversational and I would like that to change.

From what I know, the dialect of Rromani that I am familiar with is either Bugurdzi or Arli (Kosovo) dialect. I…

Another word we have for sleepy is sovauno..or..according to romlex its “sovavno” but..to me it sounds like sovauvo? Maybe I am wrong. Anyway…id like to read up on why there are so many Rromani dialects and how they came to be what they are. Do you know any books that discuss things like that? Like… 

How do you go from lindralo….to sovavno? Lol. Those are like two totally opposite ends..but then we have cino, khino, etc that are exactly the same!? I know that Serbian is sooo similar to Bugurdzi and Arli. Some of the words are exactly the same. 

Well, I guess we just picked up words from surrounding dialects, all while keeping and maintaining many of our own…all across the board. 

The dialects are amazing, lol 

Although standardising Romanes would be good for intra Rroma communication I kinda feel like we would lose some of this organic change.  Even though when this Romany guy my friend introduced me to on FB was typing and his spelling was so crazy that I swear I couldn’t understand a word rofl 

Anyhow Anglo Romany is so similar to some of the European dialects, it’s like the exact same word except with an English accent, the anglo for ‘tired’ is Keeno if I remember rightly 

Sleepy can also be sovarno/sovardo in Gurbet. It’s soibnitko in Lotfitka, which sounds heavily influenced by Latvian or Slovak or something to me.