Romanes Numerals and Innovations
To read the full article click here ROMANES NUMERALS AND INNOVATIONS Hancock, Ian F Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society; Jan 1, 1969; 48, Periodicals Archive Online pg. 19
Is Anglo-Romanes A Creole?
To read the full article click here IS ANGLO-ROMANES A CREOLE? Hancock, Ian F Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society; Jan 1, 1970; 49, Periodicals Archive Online pg. 41
A Glossary of Romani Terms
The following is a glossary of words occurring in the papers in this volume, plus a number of others relevant to the topics dealt with. Where they represent usage in different dialects, this has been indicated. To read the full article click here Hancock, I. (1997). A Glossary of Romani Terms. The American Journal of…
The Acquisition of English by American Romani Children
There are probably over one million :B-orn (“Gypsies”) in the United States and Canada, the majority of whom maintain the ancestral language (8-omanés) and culture ffiomanfa) which had their origins in northcentral India over a millenium ago. The history of Born in North America may be traced from the sixteenth century, when Gypsy slaves were…
The Origin and Function of the Gypsy Image in Children’s Literature
Gypsies, or Romanies, have provided writers with a source of color since their very appearance in Europe in the Middle Ages. Black’s Gypsy Bibliography, which includes nothing later than 1914, lists 351 novels, 199 plays, and 133 ballads in the English literary tradition alone, which have been written about or which feature Gypsy characters. In…
The Fate of Gypsy Slaves in the West Indies
“In May, 1979, I visited the island of Barbados with teh purpose of investigating the state archives, in order to determine teh fate of the Gypsies who were shipped to the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and indentured bondservants.” To read the full article click here THE FATE OF GYPSY SLAVES…
On Romani Origins and Identity
Those of you familiar with my work know that it has taken a circuitous route over the years in an ongoing effort to refine it, and no doubt it will be modified further as it continues. Thus in my earliest writing I supported a fifth-century exodus from India and accepted the established three-way Rom-Dom-Lom split;…
Duty and Beauty, Possession and Truth: The Claim of Lexical Impovershment as Control
The manipulation by societies in power of the identities of subordinate groups is achieved in many ways. One such way is through discriminatory legislation, such as that enacted against the Romani people in almost every land, including the United States. Another is through media representation, both factual and fictional. This last category, the portrayal of…