| States | former Ottoman Rumelia |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity | Muslim Roma |
| Familycolor | Indo-European |
| Fam 2 | Indo-Iranian |
| Fam 3 | Indo-Aryan |
| Fam 4 | Central |
| Fam 5 | Romani |
| Fam 6 | Balkan |
| Fam 7 | Southern |
| Glotto | pasp1238 |
| Glottorefname | Rumelian Romani |
Rumelian Romani is a dialect of Southern Balkan Romani of strong Turkish pronunciation with Turkish and Greek loanwords, once was spoken by the Turkish-Muslim Roma (Xoraxane) in Ottoman Rumelia, especially by the Sedentary Rumelian Romani people of various groups in Edirne in East Thrace[1] First described by Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname in 1668, of the Muslim Roma in Gümülcine, and later by William Marsden in 1785 and by Alexandros Georgios Paspatis (Paspati), a scholar of the Romani language in 1870.[2][3] This Romani dialect is almost extinct in Turkey, but still spoken by Muslim Roma in Western Thrace today.[4]
References
- ^ "Rumelian Sedentary: Dialect Sampler, Romani Dialects Interactive - ROMANI Project Manchester". romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ Friedman, Victor A. & Dankoff, Robert (1991). "The Earliest Text in Balkan (Rumelian) Romani: A Passage from Evliya Çelebi's Seyahat nameh". Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. 1 (1): 1–20. Fifth Series.
- ^ Paspati, A. G. & Hamlin, C. (1860). "Memoir on the Language of the Gypsies, as Now Used in the Turkish Empire". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 7: 143–270. doi:10.2307/592158. JSTOR 592158
- ^ Adamou, Evangelia & Arvaniti, Amalia (2014). "Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 44 (2): 223–231. doi:10.1017/S0025100313000376. ISSN 0025-1003. S2CID 143602944