Domari language

Spoken in

• Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Indian domari

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Domari is an Indo-Aryan language in the Middle East and some neighboring regions. It is spoken by isolated and socially marginalized populations who traditionally pursue hiking trades, especially working as a metal worker and showmen and himself as Dom ( "Man, man," plural Dome, Domba ) or Qurbati call. From the Arab population living in the Levant Dom be derogatory Nawar ( "blacksmith, fire-worshipers " ) called.

Similar to the Romani of the immigrant to Asia Minor and Europe Roma and the Lomavren of Lom in Armenia and the South Caucasus, as has also the Domari in common with the central Indian languages ​​, so especially the realization of r as u or i ( Sanskrit SRN, domari sun-/sin-, "hear" ) and KS- than k (h ) ( Sanskrit aksi, Domari aki, " eye"). How Romani it preserved here, firstly, some archaic features that were lost in other central Indian languages ​​(eg Sanskrit oṣṭha, Domari East, " lip ", Sanskrit hasta, Domari xast, "hand" ), and the other hand has in common with recent morphological developments in northwest Indian languages, including the renewal of the conjugation of the past by affixation of the participle with obliquem enklitischem pronouns. In the earlier research since John Sampson (1923 ) has therefore been assumed that both languages ​​were due to a common, migrated from Central India to the West and precursor would be divided later. On the other hand, offers Domari against Romani distinctive archaic features of phonological, morphological and lexical type that indicate that the migration westward in the case of Domari took place at an earlier time and is therefore more likely to assume a convergent but separate development of two different central Indian languages.

Domari is today an endangered language that is mainly used active even within the family of older speakers. Communities of Domari speakers there are mainly in Jerusalem, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, whose Domari in phonology, vocabulary, morphology and syntax is already penetrated to a great extent from the contact language Arabic. Remains of Domari also appear in the secret language special vocabulary of nomadic communities in other regions, so among other things in the Kurdish -speaking Mıtrıp or Karaçi, pedlars in eastern Anatolia, and at the Lori speaking Luti, a socially excluded group in Iran's Lorestan. Scattered elements of Domari are also attested in a larger geographical region that extends from Azerbaijan in the north to Sudan in the south.

Reliable data on the number of speakers worldwide, it is not. Especially for the best-documented and examined Domari in Jerusalem, it is nowadays up to 200 mostly elderly speakers.

Classification

• Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Indo-Aryan languages Central Indian languages Romani Domari - Lomavren domari