DDDLing Forum: Language Contact among Peripatetic Communities in Iran

*Pre-registration is required. If you would like to attend the forum, please fill out the application form here (in Japanese) by 12:00 p.m. (JST), 15 March, 2025 (Mon.) (Application may be closed early).

Date/Time

18 March, 2025 (Tue.) 15:00–16:40

Venue

Room 303, 3F, ILCAA, TUFS & Online Meeting via Zoom

Program

15:00–15:10
Tooru HAYASI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The Open University of Japan), Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)
Introduction

15:40–17:10
Hassan Rezai BAGHBIDI (Osaka University)
“The Domari and Romani Languages in Iran”

Apart from the speakers of the two Indo-Aryan languages of Jaḍgālī and Kholosī, Iran hosts a number of Gypsy communities still preserving to some extent two varieties of their ancestral language, i.e. Domari and Romani. Traces of Iranian Domari can only be found in the jargons created by the Gypsy communities of Iran. These jargons are grammatically based on the languages of the host communities, mostly Persian dialects, but they contain a considerable number of Domari words of Indo-Aryan origin. However, Iranian Romani (or Romāno, as it is called by its speakers) has preserved its grammar and most of its Indo-Aryan features, in spite of being under the heavy influence of Persian and Āzari Turkish. This presentation will provide a brief description of the main characteristics of Iranian Domari and Romani.

Language

English

Admission

Free

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is required. If you would like to attend the forum, please fill out the application form here (in Japanese) by 12:00 p.m. (JST), 15 March, 2025 (Mon.) (Application may be closed early).
A Zoom meeting invitation will be sent in the afternoon on 16 March (Sun). If you don’t receive it on 16 March, please contact Mayumi Adachi (adachi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp) by 17 March (Mon.) (Please change [at] to @).

Sponsored by

• Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), ILCAA, TUFS
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “A study on the formation and social function of secret languages in Turkey (24K03848)”
• Joint Research Project “Heritage languages and identities in a time of divisions and mobility (jrp000295)”, ILCAA, TUFS
• Joint Research Project “A study on the grammar of discourse in Eurasian languages (jrp000296)”, ILCAA, TUFS

(Posted 2 February, 2025)