I WANTED TO KNOW SOMETHING FROM REAL LIFE | Daniele Viktor Leggio

“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.

Daniele Viktor Leggio is a Ph.D., Romani language specialist, former lecturer in linguistics at University of Manchester; language teacher and language activist based in Palermo, Italy.

Viktor’s Academia profile:
https://independent.academia.e....du/DanieleViktorLegg

Radio Romani Mahala:
https://romani-mahala.beepworld.de/

The website is still accessible, but they do not broadcast anymore, as the platform providing the streaming service has discontinued it (see their page: http://www.flatcast.org/ ).

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
1:25 background
06:26 language proficiency
10:00 challenges at learning languages
13:05 studying at university
15:17 Erasmus in Slovenia
16:20 helping Roma refugees from Kosovo in Palermo
18:21 beginning working on Romani as a scholar
18:06 choosing the University of Manchester
20:30 communication with Roma refugees & language repertoire
25:50 dimension of language analyzes
30:16 description of the dialect
32:48 obstacles in linguistics investigation
35:50 link between language & migration
39:20 Internet communication & Romani linguistics / online Romani radio
50:00 cosmopolitan studies
57:00 standardization
58:30 adjusting & integration
1:03:18 what still needs to be discovered in Romani