ROMA HAVE TO BE ACTIVELY INCLUDED IN ROMA COMMUNITY AS ACTIVISTS | Svetlana Ćirković

“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.

Svetlana Ćirković is a Ph.D., Romani language specialist, senior research associate at the Institute for Balkan Studies in Belgrade, Serbia.

About Svetlana Ćirković:
Link to the official website of the Institute for Balkan Studies:
https://www.balkaninstitut.com..../eng/project-members

Link to the official website of the project in which Svetlana is engaged:
https://vlings.rs/team/researchers/

Links for academia.edu and research gate, where Svetlana posts her papers:
https://balkaninstitut.academi....a.edu/SvetlanaCirkov
https://www.researchgate.net/p....rofile/Svetlana-Cirk

Links to RomLex and to the Database of Romani dialects:

http://romani.uni-graz.at/romlex/

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

0:00 intro
1:50 background
03:21 language proficiency
06:00 studying Serbian at university
8:54 first encounter with Romani
15:50 environmental and family support
18:06 enrolling the Romani course
20:00 continue researching work
21:07 challenges
27:20 RomLex
29:49 academic research of ethnic minority in Serbia
38:15 Rade Uhlik
42:53 field work & recordings
49:30 Gurbet Romani
57:00 Board of Romani studies in Serbia
1:01:10 lack of students for Romani course
1:04:08 Romani linguistic landscape
1:12:37 major discovery
1:13:44 future plans