Burgenland Romani
| Burgenland-Romani (roman) | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Spoken in |
Austria | |
| speaker | about 500 | |
| Linguistic classification |
|
|
| Official status | ||
| Recognized minority / regional language in |
 Burgenland
|
|
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
|
| ISO 639 -2 |
Rome |
|
| ISO 639-3 |
rmc |
|
The Burgenland Romani or Roman is one belonging to the group of south-central dialects Lokalvarietät of Romani , in the Austrian Burgenland as a minority language of the Burgenland Roma is recognized. There are also individual speaker groups in eastern Austrian cities such as Vienna or Graz . Since March 2011, the language as a novel - the language of the Burgenland Roma in the section Orally transmitted traditions and forms of expression, has been part of the national intangible cultural heritage in Austria .
history
Romani has been at home in Burgenland since the late 15th century, when Roma from central Hungary settled in the western Hungarian-Pannonian region. The history of Burgenland Roma and their language is marked by centuries of discrimination, stigmatization and persecution finally in Porajmos in the era of National Socialism culminated. Only about 400 of the originally 7,000 Burgenland Roma survived the genocide .
In the second half of the 20th century, the language was mostly only spoken within the family and, because of the Iron Curtain, developed in isolation from its closest related varieties in Hungary and Slovenia . The fate of the Burgenland Roma and their language only became known to a wider public in the course of the gruesome quadruple murder of Roma by the terrorist Franz Fuchs . A broad-based project with the University of Graz began in the mid-1990s to codify Burgenland Romani. Today, in addition to several magazines, there are also radio reports and a monthly TV program broadcast by ORF in Burgenland-Romani.
Alphabet and pronunciation
Burgenland-Romani has the following 27 letters in the currently valid orthography:
| Capital letter | lowercase letters | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. | B. | C. | D. | Dsch | E. | F. | G | H | a | b | c | d | dsch | e | f | G | H | |
| I. | J | K | Kh | L. | M. | N | O | P | i | j | k | kh | l | m | n | O | p | |
| Ph | R. | S. | Sch | T | Th | Tsch | U | V | ph | r | s | sch | t | th | ch | u | v | |
The German letters "q", "w", "x", "y", "z", "ä", "ö", "ü" and "ß" do not usually exist in Burgenland Romani; they are represented with "kv", "v", "ks", "i", "c", "e", "e", "i" and "s", and words adopted from other languages are usually set phonetically according to the spelling rules of Burgenland Romani, for example: ekologija (ecology), kompjuteri (computer), kvaliteta (quality).
See also
literature
- Halwachs, Dieter W., Slovenian Institute for Alps-Adriatic Research (Ed.): Amaro vakeripe Roman hi / Our language is Roman . Drava-Verlag, Klagenfurt 1998, ISBN 3-85435-266-2 .
Web links
- UNESCO: Intangible cultural heritage - Roman - The language of the Burgenland Roma
- derstandard.at: Roman as a language in everyday life: The beak that is finally growing again
Individual evidence
- ^ Roman - the language of the Burgenland Roma. Austrian Commission for UNESCO: Directory of the intangible cultural heritage in Austria (immaterielleskulturerbe.unesco.at).