SOME NOTES ON BALKAN ROMANI

Abstract

The paper presents the formation of some grammatical categories in Romani, spoken by some Roma groups in Balkan countries. Romani, belonging to Indo-Arian languages, preserves some of the grammatical system form Indian languages, however there are grammatical categories which are developed throughout the centuries due to the contacts of Romani with European languages. A group of dialects, being in contact with Romanian language developed grammatical features which the other dialects of Romani do not have. These categories are developed by the use of old suffixes and prefixes in new combinations. From other side there are certain verbs which developed through the case system of Romani, which show how these verbs function in different cases.

Keywords

• Romani
• suffixes
• prefixes
• verbs
• case system