Good Practices in Roma Education in Bulgaria During The Years of Transition

The aim of this paper is to present good educational practices from Bulgaria that relate to Roma education. In the so-called Years of Transition, educational conditions changed considerably. Non-governmental organizations have attempted to promote high-quality education for Roma children. The Bulgarian Ministry of Education has made various changes in legislation which now allow Roma children…

Code Switching Among Muslim Roms in Bulgaria

This article presents the language of Muslim Roms, who form a trilingual community in the northeastern part of Bulgaria, discussing language mixing between Romani, Turkish, and Bulgarian, applying the model of Myers-Scotton (1993). Two different Roma linguistic groups are observed speakers of Vlax (Zagondzi) and non-Vşax (Xoraxani). The non-vLax language, which is full of Turkish…

Code-Switching Among Trilingual Turkish-Speaking Roma Children in Bulgaria

The paper presents trilingualism among Turkish-speaking Roma children from Bulgaria and the processes of code-switching. The study examines the MLF Model of Myers-Scotton (1993), and shows that this model is not valid in the situation of bilingual (trilingual) children learning two/three languages simultaneously. They acquire the three languages as a single code, and are not…