Domari and Romani

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Domari and Romani

dusseaux.antoine_289191, Sun, 2022-05-29 06:11
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The page says "Printed or pre-recorded Romani language materials may not be understandable outside the country (or context of surrounding languages) in which they were produced." and gives "Middle Eastern Romani" as an alternative name.

However: "There is, in other words, no evidence that Domari and Romani ever constituted a single language, at any period in their development: but there is on the other hand plenty of evidence that they underwent shared developments as a result of sharing the same geo-linguistic environments during successive periods." (Matras, Y. (2012). A grammar of Domari. De Gruyter Mouton, cited in Friedman, Victor A. (2014). "A Grammar of Domari by Yaron Matras (review)". Romani Studies. 24 (2): 227–231. ISSN 1757-2274.)

References to Romani should be removed.

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We will remove the remarks referencing Romani from all the Domari [rmt] entries, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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Chuck Fennig, Fri, 2022-06-03 15:19

Dear Antoine,

Thank you for pointing out the references to Romani in the Domari [rmt] language entries.

This statement was supposed to be inserted into every *Romani* language entry, due to misunderstandings about intelligibility between Romani varieties based on country and the context of surrounding languages.

Best regards,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

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