A MAP OF EVERY WORD CAN SAY A LOT ABOUT HISTORY | Giulia Meli - Conversations with Romani linguists

“Conversations with Romani linguists” is a series of interviews where we talk to linguists working on the Romani language.

Here we find out how they became interested in specialized research on the Romani language, what challenges they faced on their professional path, and what fascinating stories and discoveries they had working on the Romani language.

Giulia Meli is a Ph.D., Romani language specialist, lecturer at Department of Literature, Philology and Linguistics at the University of Milan.

Giulia’s publications in IRIS:
https://air.unimi.it/browse?authority=rp44234&type=author

Giulia’s Academia site:
https://unimi.academia.edu/GiuliaMeli

Giulia’s University site:
https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/giulia-meli

Database of Romani Dialects:
https://romani.dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/

Personal website of Yaron Matras:
https://yaronmatras.org/

Anastasiia Tambovtseva-Koval:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ankovalia/

https://www.instagram.com/pro.romani/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pro.romani.at/

TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@pro.romani/

0:00 intro
1:30 background
4:01 first encounter with Romani
06:00 language proficiency
09:05 first work on Romani
18:00 work on French Piedmonts Sinti morphology
19:25 genitive suffix
23:50 connection of Italian Sinti with Germany
27:35 Sigismondo Caccini & Adriano Colocci
33:48 Discoveries of Leonardo Piasere
35:00 discovered monographs of Sigismondo Caccini
38:55 destiny of Shinto Rosengro
42:00 Kalajdži Romani dialect
48:30 current work & future plans