Sepečides Romani
Romani dialect / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sepečides Romani, also known as Sevlengere Roma (lit. 'basket-weaving Roma'),[1] is the Romani dialect of the traditionally basketweaving Roma originally from Thessaloniki. Their ancestors lived there as nomads during the Ottoman Empire until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey.[2][3] The Sepečides dialect is considered to be non-Vlax.[4] It belongs to the Southern Balkan group of Romani dialects,[5] although the RomArchive claims the language is practically extinct.[6]
Sepečides | |
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Native to | Greece, Turkey |
Indo-European
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | sepe1242 |
The dialect has many Greek and Turkish loanwords.[7] The loanword verb markers in Romani "are often Greek derived markers, maintained even when contact with Greek has ceased."[8] Linguist Petra Cech published a monograph codifying this dialect in 1996.[9] Many of the Sepečides from Greece live in Izmir, where their descendants speak only Turkish.[10]