...This chapter describes the historical origins of Romani and its split into different dialects. A series of innovations surpass as separating Romani from the bulk of the Indo-Aryan language group. The Romani lexicon reveals some clearly identifiable traces of both Iranian and Armenian influences...

...Romani is one of Britain's oldest and most established minority languages. Brought to the country by Romani immigrants from continental Europe in the sixteenth century or even earlier, it was spoken in its old, inflected form as a family and community language until the second half...

... to contradict the creole stereotype of a complete absence of grammatical inflection, showing English inflection wherever it is required. Some Romani dialects reveal evidence that the language was employed for the exclusion of bystanders. It is noted that mixed languages may arise in situations of competition...

... of the duplicitous femme fatale: a half-Romani, half-British travelling woman named Belle. Played by Greek cinema star Melina Mercouri in a sexually bold and aggressive manner seldom found in either British film noirs or Gainsborough-style costume melodramas during the post-World War II period, Belle embodies...

...This chapter describes the inflected form of Romani that was spoken in Britain and explores its position within the Romani dialectal landscape. The coverage of Romani in Britain begins in 1542. In this chapter word forms are adapted to the general transliteration conventions of Romani dialectology...

... presuppositional domain when processing an utterance. The chapter reveals how Angloromani is used at the level of the individual speech act. Angloromani is a major tool in delivering the humorous key of the story. The historical process leading from Romani to Angloromani is a kind of ‘grammaticalisation...

... was in all likelihood a key trigger for the abandonment of Romani as an everyday family language. In its contemporary form, Angloromani is a functional resource that fills the specific communicative needs of the community that are not adequately covered by what is now its everyday language of conversation...

.... Godefroy cited only humanist editions of the Corpus Iuris Civilis in his “Bibliotheca”. ¹²⁴ In “Historia, seu progressus Juris Civilis Romani”, which precedes the “Bibliotheca” in Manuale iuris, Godefroy listed...