The strange story of a Roma school in the Hungarian countryside named after an Indian buddhist figure.
Quite a buzz because of a Bulgarian romani video on Instagram that highlight the commonality of Romanes, Hindi, and Urdu.
Ever heard about Sanskrit and Prakrit?
A very nice video on the Zargari Romanes dialect. Zargari are Roma who went back eastwards at some point in history and settled in Iran. This is underlined by the number of Greek words in their dialect, which is on par with other Balkan Romanes variants.
We hope to hear more about them!
Gennaro Spinelli, an Italian Roma activist and artist, raised the Romani flag at the base camp of the Everest on April 30th. He gave an interview to Romea.
Nice to see that google translate allows for translations in Romanes. It definitively has a bias towards Vlach Romanes, which is not the most common Romanes, but this is a good start! The choices of words on World, to think, and a few others show this bias, but on the other hand, they still use the old Romanes for “life”, which is not Vlach.
Wonder how this was compiled…
Romanes is finally in Google Translate: The biggest language expansion in history! Google added 110 new languages.
A report on the currently held Edirne Kakawa festival, which this year coincides with orthodox Easter.
Unfortunately, Roma made it …
– A billion-dollar bust, gypsy teen brides and a web of lies: Catch up on the ABC’s best long reads of 2018. In: ABC. 30.12.2018. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-29/abcs-best-long-reads-of-the-year-2018-virginia-trioli/10668510 [link-preview url=”https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-29/abcs-best-long-reads-of-the-year-2018-virginia-trioli/10668510″]
Well, it seems that Australia is somewhat indebted to Roma … The inventor of Australian beer was an English petty Roma thief deported to the colonies.
– The man who invented Australian beer was a British petty thief. In: The Daily Telegraph. 24.12.2017. https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/the-man-who-invented-australian-beer-was-a-british-petty-thief/news-story/599db1e8dfb78757786a14661044585a [link-preview url=”https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/the-man-who-invented-australian-beer-was-a-british-petty-thief/news-story/599db1e8dfb78757786a14661044585a”]
The Australian Footballer Bouzanis was suspended for repeatedly calling another player a “f•cking Gypsy”… Unfortunately not the first time, neither the last. At least he was suspended.
– Melbourne City Down One More Player as Bouzanis Gets Suspended Five Games. In: Sportsblog. 09.02.2017. http://michaelstehlik.sportsblog.com/posts/31954208/melbourne-city-down-one-more-player-as-bouzanis-gets-suspended-five-games.html [link-preview url=”http://michaelstehlik.sportsblog.com/posts/31954208/melbourne-city-down-one-more-player-as-bouzanis-gets-suspended-five-games.html”]
An exhibit of Koudelka’s work on Rroma in Korea. Most of the pictures are from the famous 1968 series that was published as a book.
– Koudelka’s work captures the pathos of life as a ‘Gypsy’. In: Korea JoonAng Daily. 12.01.2017. http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3028525&cloc=etc%7Cjad%7Cgooglenews [link-preview url=”http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3028525&cloc=etc%7Cjad%7Cgooglenews”]
Another article on the “oldest Indian Diaspora” – the Rroma!
India’s external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj officially stated that Rroma are the children of India. India is even pondering recognizing them as a minority…
In the centre of Jodhpur, a Flamenco and Gypsy music festival brings Rroma back to their original roots in North Western India…
To be seen!
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