Statistics

Total amount of Romani words3021
Total amount of Romani sentences/phrases303
Total amount of comments12
Distribution of parts of speech
noun
2068 (68.45%)
verb
415 (13.74%)
adjective
307 (10.16%)
adverb
86 (2.85%)
pronoun
63 (2.09%)
numeral
35 (1.16%)
preposition
35 (1.16%)
particle
5 (0.17%)
conjunction
5 (0.17%)
article
1 (0.03%)
interjection
1 (0.03%)
Distribution of source languages
Indic (Indo-Aryan languages) or probably Indic
1646 (54.49%)
unknown or unclear origin
383 (12.68%)
Scandinavian (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish) or probably Scandinavian
287 (9.5%)
Greek or probably Greek
143 (4.73%)
German or probably German
129 (4.27%)
Slavic or probably Slavic
127 (4.2%)
Finno-Ugric (Finnish, Sami) or probably Finno-Ugric
65 (2.15%)
Armenian or probably Armenian
57 (1.89%)
Persian (Farsi, Ossetian) or probably Persian
52 (1.72%)
Rotwelsh or probably Rotwelsh
47 (1.56%)
Romanic (Latin, Romanian, Spanish, Frensh) or probably Romanic
45 (1.49%)
origin from more than one language
28 (0.93%)
other
12 (0.4%)
Distribution of sources
Iversen, Ragnvald (1944): The Romany language in Norway. Oslo: Det Norske videnskaps-akademi.
1748 (57.86%)
Karlsen, Ludvig, Frantz Johansen, Kai I. Engen and Knut Sørsdal (1993): Romani-folkets ordbok [The Romani people´s dictionary]. Eds. Ludvig Karlsen and Frantz Johansen. Kløfta: ES grafisk.
1114 (36.88%)
Karlsen, Hermann (1995): Romani-norsk ordbok [Romani-Norwegian dictionary]. Fredrikstad: Stiftelsen Roma 2000.
1010 (33.43%)
Ribsskog, Øyvin (1945): Hemmelige språk og tegn: taterspråk, tivolifolkenes språk, forbryterspråk, gateguttspråk, bankespråk, tegn, vinkel- og punktskrift [Secret languages and signs: Tater language, showman language, criminals´ language, cursing language, signs, angle and dot writing]. Oslo: Tanum.
684 (22.64%)
Sundt, Eilert (1850): Beretning om Fante- eller Landstrygerfolket i Norge: Bidrag til Kundskab om de laveste Samfundsforholde [Report on the vagabonds in Norway: Contribution to the knowledge of the lowest conditions in society]. Christiania (Oslo): Wulfsbergske bogtrykkeri.
617 (20.42%)
Theil, Rolf, Gustavsen, Anna and Mariann Grønnerud (2014): Vandriane rakkrar. Taterne forteller. Taterane fortel [The Taters tell stories]. Oslo: Novus forlag.
549 (18.17%)
Fieldwork Norwegian Romani project
339 (11.22%)
Acknowledgements