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In Romania, a country with a sizable Romani minority (3.3% of the total population), there is a unified teaching system of the Romani language for all dialects spoken in the country. This is primarily a result of the work of Gheorghe Sarău, who made Romani textbooks for teaching Romani children in the Romani language.
This book is the first comprehensive overview in English of Romani. It opens with a discussion of the historical and linguistic origins of the Romani-speaking population. An in-depth and detailed discussion is devoted to the changes in the sound system, grammatical structure, and lexicon that led to the formation of Proto-Romani and Early Romani.
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Angloromani or Anglo-Romani (literally "English Romani"; also known as Angloromany, Rummaness, or Pogadi Chib) is a mixed language of Indo-European origin involving the presence of Romani vocabulary and syntax in the English used by descendants of Romanichal Travellers in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States, and ...
Four further factsheets cover the individual linguistic structural levels: lexis, phonology, morphology and syntax. This is followed by a detailed discussion of dialectology and a final presentation of the socio-linguistic situation of Romani.
Romani comprises a large number of related dialects that ultimately originated as Indic dialects in northwest India and subsequently spread to Europe and beyond. It is spoken by several millions of native speakers who are almost universally bilingual in at least one other language of their country of residence.
The Romani language has for most of its history been an entirely oral language, with no written form in common use. Although the first example of written Romani dates from 1542, [1] it is not until the twentieth century that vernacular writing by native Romani people arose.
