%0 Journal Article
%T Catalan Romani (cal車 catal角) in the work of Juli Vallmitjana: an initial appraisal
%A Adiego
%A Ignasi-Xavier
%J Zeitschrift f邦r Katalanistik
%D 2012
%I Alber-Ludwigs-Universit?t
%X The Catalan writer Juli Vallmitjana i Colomines (1873每1937) made extensive use of Catalan Gypsies as the topic of some of his plays and novels. It is clear that he had close contact with Gypsy people, and that this contact resulted in an interest for the Romani speech of Catalonia (cal車 catal角). He introduced Cal車 words in dramatic works, and words and dialogues in his novel "Sota Montju c", which constitutes an interesting source of this language, but his chief contribution is a remarkable list of words and phrases in an appendix on Cal車 catal角 that was included in the first edition of "Sota Montju c". All these materials have not been analyzed in depth until now: In his study on Catalan Romani, Frederick George Ackerley only accounts for some Cal車 words contained in a work of Vallmitjana.Vallmitjana is practically the only source for filling the gap between the earliest written sources of Catalan Romani (in the first half of the 19th century) and the present attestations of this dialect, now on the verge of extinction. In this paper, I offer a first appraisal of all these Romani materials recorded by the Catalan writer.
%K Catalan Romani
%K Catalan Gypsies
%K Romani language
%K Gypsy language
%U http://www.romanistik.uni-freiburg.de/pusch/zfk/25/17_Adiego.pdf