IT MAKES SENSE TO RETHINK THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE AS A FIXED SYSTEM | Jakob Wiedner

“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.

Jakob Wiedner is a Ph.D., Romani language specialist, researcher in Linguistics and Plurilingualism at the University of Graz, Austria.

Uni Graz page about Jakob’s work including publications:
https://online.uni-graz.at/kfu...._online/wbforschungs

The Norwegian Romani dictionary:
https://tekstlab.uio.no/nro/htdocs/

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

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0:00 intro
1:30 background
4:33 first encounter with Romani
05:44 work nowadays
06:50 first experience working on Romani
09:10 challenges in research work
13:09 Ph.D. theses and Norway
16:10 language ideology
23:24 influence of the authorities
31:48 ambitions to have an impact on
41:40 major discoveries
44:45 future plans