The thesis provides a detailed grammatical and lexical description of Vend Romani, an under- described dialect of Romani spoken in the Transdanubian region of Hungary, and describes its current sociolinguistic situation. The linguistic data are based on recordings of spontaneous narratives, semi-structured interviews, and linguistic elicitation by means of standardized dialectological questionnaires acquired during linguistic field research. The thesis is structured into six main chapters: The first chapter deals with the sources of data and methods. The second chapter examines the factors that influence the sociolinguistic vitality of the dialect. The following three chapters are devoted to the grammatical description. The sixth chapter analyses the layers of borrowings in Vend Romani. The thesis also includes the basic vocabulary of Vend Romani translated to English.

Romani music and its incorporation into the school education is the theme of this thesis. The aim is to provide fundamental information about Romani culture and music and to inspire teachers to include multicultural and ethnic topics into their lessons. The thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part (first and second chapter) deals with Romani people and their value system, language and its pronunciation. It describes the main characteristics of traditional and contemporary Romani music, while a separate subchapter focuses on Czech songs about Romani people. The following practical part (third and fourth chapter) describes the use of Romani music for both, Romani and non-Romani, children. First, the projects Čhavorenge a Čhavorikano luma are presented, the aim of which is to remind Romani children of their traditional music and the values of their culture. The way of teaching Romani music at a selected elementary school with a large percentage of Romani students is also mentioned. The fourth chapter introduces the possibilities of using Romani music for non-Romani children. It includes songbooks, song collections and arrangements for children and student choirs. Finally, three thematic teaching blocks are presented, from which it is possible to draw inspiration in the lessons of Music...

This thesis examines possible contact effects in the segmental phonology in an idiolect of Swedish Romani. From data gathered from one speaker of Swedish Romani I describe the phonology on a segmental level and then compare this with the phonology of its progenitor, Proto-Northwestern Romani. The traces of interference could in almost every case be explained as features gained from contact with Swedish. When features were judged to have entered Swedish Romani from a different language, intense contact with Swedish could possible explain why these features have remained in Swedish Romani.

This thesis revisits Constant’s New Babylon (about 1956-1974). Turning to theories of primitivism and, in particular, Christopher L. Miller’s critical reading of ‘the nomad’ found in Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus (1980), I use previously published and unconsidered archival materials alike to demonstrate the importance of Romani to Constant’s original work and thinking on New Babylon. Positioning these materials against a selection of dominant claims, reference points and images now circulating in established New Babylon and Situationist International scholarship, I argue that Constant’s daily life and artistic practice, together with key moments in the development and public display of his project, are framed by references to, yearnings for and personal dealings with Romani, both real and imagined. Questioning contemporary theorisations of nomadism through a consideration of who travels and why, I advocate for a greater awareness of and sensitivity to the historical conditions that produce particular forms of movement. New Babylon and Romani are inextricably intertwined: to forget the one is to misunderstand, and misrepresent, the other.

A Grammatical Sketch of the Romani dialect of the Gemere village Krásnohorské Podhradie Petr Rubák Abstract The primary goal of the thesis is to provide a grammatical description of the unique Romani dialect of Krásnohorské Podhradie (south-eastern Slovakia), a transitional variety between South Central and North Central subgroups of Central Romani. The body of the thesis is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter briefly deals with phonology and morphophonology, including a description of the phoneme inventory and a description of various sound changes. The second, the main chapter is devoted to morphology and contains a description of the derivation and inflection of nouns, adjectives and verbs. The third chapter is shortly devoted basic and complex syntactic structures. The linguistic data are based on linguistic elicitation using of standardized dialectological questionnaires. Keywords: Romani, grammatic, dialects, Gemer (SK)

I denna uppsats har målet varit att försöka skapa en uppfattning om hur lärare säger sig resonera kring styrdokumentens skrivningar om Sveriges nationella minoriteter, hur de hävdar att deras förkunskaper i ämnet ser ut och sedermera hur de säger sig planera och utföra undervisningen kopplat till minoriteterna. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med sju högstadielärare - tre svensklärare och fyra samhällskunskaps- och historielärare har vi kommit fram till att endast en av de intervjuade lärarna har fått med sig någon kunskap om de nationella minoriteterna från sin lärarutbildning. Detta har lett till att lärarna fått inhämta kunskaper på eget håll. Resultatet visar att alla lärarna i studien säger sig undervisa om minoriteterna, men upplägget på undervisningen ser olika ut sett till innehåll och var det får plats i terminsplaneringen. Mycket beror på klassens komposition då flera av lärarna väljer att styra undervisningens innehåll mot det som känns relevant för demografin i klassrummet. En annan viktig aspekt i vad som styr innehållet är lärarens egna kunskaper och tolkning om vad som är relevant för ämnet. Lärarnas gemensamma uppfattning är att det är ett viktigt område och att det är viktigt för eleverna att lära sig om minoriteterna och deras historia. Respondenterna försöker arbeta interkulturellt och lägger stor vikt vid etik och moral i undervisningen; att ha empati och förståelse för minoriteterna anser lärarna vara något av det viktigaste med undervisningen. Det är därför inte ovanligt att lärarna hävdar att de inkluderar arbetet om minoriteterna i områden som handlar om etik och moral och det är en gängse uppfattning att ämnesöverskridande arbete är att föredra.

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Bachelor-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2005.

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Tese(doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Linguística, Português e Línguas Classicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, 2008. / Submitted by Ângela Christina (angelchris@bce.unb.br) on 2009-05-12T20:22:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_FabioJoseDantasMelo_parcial.pdf: 713597 bytes, checksum: f481fbebf1deeb50ddc0db3a7c710c43 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guimaraes Jacqueline(jacqueline.guimaraes@bce.unb.br) on 2009-05-14T16:06:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_FabioJoseDantasMelo_parcial.pdf: 713597 bytes, checksum: f481fbebf1deeb50ddc0db3a7c710c43 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2009-05-14T16:06:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_FabioJoseDantasMelo_parcial.pdf: 713597 bytes, checksum: f481fbebf1deeb50ddc0db3a7c710c43 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-15 / A presente Tese constitui-se no primeiro esforço acadêmico de confirmar, por intermédio da pesquisa lingüística, a relação genética entre línguas pertencentes a uma mesma família (o subgrupo Calé) do Romani, a língua original do Povo Cigano. O trabalho evidencia a continuidade entre o proto-romani europeu e o dialeto calon, oferecendo dados da história interna desta língua obsolescente, que nos permitem entender a língua da comunidade Calon de Mambaí como uma “subespécie”, ou seja, uma população de uma espécie ancestral (o Romani) que migrou da Índia, nos primórdios do milênio passado, e chegou à área geográfica brasileira ainda no período colonial de nossa história. Apresentando registros do caló colhidos na Espanha com registros do calão, extraídos de obras de referência da Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, juntamente com o trabalho de campo com ciganos portugueses de hoje e com ciganos brasileiros, entrego à Comunidade chefiada pelo Sr. Dálcio uma primeira documentação do calon e de aspectos culturais subsistentes. Por fim, a estruturação do Vocabulário calon em campos semânticos, que respondeu a necessidade primeira de elaboração de um dicionário, possibilitou também a compreensão do impacto sofrido por estes ciganos ao longo de seu contato com a sociedade brasileira e da dinâmica interna deste dialeto em se auto-organizar diante das novas exigências do mundo moderno. __________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This Thesis is the first academic effort to confirm, by means of linguistic research, the genetic relationship between languages belonging to the same family (Calé sub-group) of Romani, the original language of Gipsies. This work shows the continuity between the European proto-romani and the calon dialect, offering data about the internal history of this dying language, which enables us to understand the language of the Mambaí Calon community as a “subspecies”, that is, a population of an ancestral species (the Romani) who migrated from India, in the first years of the last millennium and arrived in the Brazilian geographical area still during the colonial period of our history. Presenting caló data collected in Spain with calão data obtained from reference work existing in the Lisbon National Library, together with field work done with nowadays Portuguese and Brazilian Gipsies, I offer to the Community headed by Mr. Dálcio a first documentation about the calon and its cultural subsisting aspects. Finally, the structuring of the calon Vocabulary in semantic fields, which is the consequence of the first need to elaborate a dictionary, also enabled the understanding of the impact suffered by these Gipsies during their contact with the Brazilian society and the understanding of the internal dynamics of this dialect as it promotes its self-organization to face the new requirements of the modern world.