Re: [tied] Re: Romani language < Indo-Arian

I'm looking forward to Yaron Matras's _Romani: A Linguistic Introduction_ (to be published this year by CUP).

There's a whole collection of articles in PDF format on various aspects of Romani at:

http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/romani/download/d_gls-dow.html

Romani historical phonology is a vast subject, as there are many old dialectal divisions within Romani, e.g. as regards the treatment or Indo-Aryan retroflexes or of the voiced aspirated series (the "phen" group, where bH > pH, vs. the "ben" group, where bH > b; <pHen/ben> 'sister' < bHagini:). The numerals 7-9 in many dialects of Romani are indeed borrowed from (early modern) Greek, as are decad names like <tr(ij)anda, saranda> '30, 40', while <bis^> '20' and <s^el> '100' are inherited Indo-Aryan items.

Piotr

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From: João Simões Lopes Filho

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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Romani language < Indo-Arian - phonetic laws

Yes, surely 8 and 7, maybe 9. ----- Original Message ----- From: wtsdv <liberty@...> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:03 AM Subject: [tied] Re: Romani language < Indo-Arian - phonetic laws > --- In cybalist@......, João Simões Lopes Filho <jodan99@......> > wrote: > > What are the main phonetical changes from Proto-Indo-Arian to > > Romani, the language of gypsies? > > The numerals are: > > 1 yekh > > 2 dui > > 3 trin > > 4 s^tar > > 5 panj^ > > 6 sôv > > 7 efta > > 8 oxto > > 9 yena > > 10 des^ > > I don't know, but it looks like 7, 8 and 9 are Greek loans. > > David > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

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