The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainBorrow, George
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The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
Borrow, George
Romanies -- Languages; Romanies -- Spain
from Colosvar; there is my son.
Te vas Del l’erangue ke meclan May God help the gentlemen that
man abri ando a pan-dibo. they let me out (from) in the
prison.
Opré rukh sarkhi ye chiriclo, ca On the tree (is) the nest of the
kerel anre e chiricli. bird, where makes eggs the female
bird.
Ca hin tiro ker? Where is your house?
Ando calo berkho, oter bin miro In the black mountain, there is
ker, av prala mensar; jas mengue my house; come brother with me;
keri. let us go to my house.
Ando bersch dui chiro, ye ven, ta In the year (are) two seasons,
nilei. the winter and summer.
O felhegos del o breschino, te The cloud gives the rain, and
purdel o barbal. puffs (forth) the wind.
Hir mi Devlis camo but cavo By my God I love much that
erai—lacho manus o, Anglus, tama gentleman—a good man he, an
rakarel Ungarica; avel catari Englishman, but he speaks
ando urdon le trin Hungarian; he came {364a} hither
gras-tensas—beshel cate abri po in a waggon with three horses, he
buklo tan; le poivasis ando bas sits here out in the wilderness;
irinel ando lel. Bo zedun stadji {364b} with a pencil in his hand
ta bari barba. he writes in a book. He has a
green hat and a big beard.
VOCABULARY OF THEIR LANGUAGE
This section of the book could not be transcribed in 1997 as it contained
many non-european languages and Gutenberg didn’t support Unicode then.
It will be transcribed at some future point.—DP, August 2019.
APPENDIX
MISCELLANIES IN THE GITÁNO LANGUAGE
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IT is with the view of preserving as many as possible of the monuments of
the Spanish Gypsy tongue that the author inserts the following pieces;
they are for the most part, whether original or translated, the
productions of the ‘Aficion’ of Seville, of whom something has been said
in the Preface to the Spurious Gypsy Poetry of Andalusia; not the least
remarkable, however, of these pieces is a genuine Gypsy composition, the
translation of the Apostles’ Creed by the Gypsies of Cordova, made under
the circumstances detailed in the second part of the first volume. To
all have been affixed translations, more or less literal, to assist those
who may wish to form some acquaintance with the Gitáno language.
COTORRES ON CHIPE CALLI / MISCELLANIES
BATO Nonrro sos socabas on o tarpe, manjirificádo quejésa tute acnao;
abillános or tute sichén, y querese tute orependola andial on la chen
sata on o tarpe; or manrro nonrro de cata chibel diñanoslo sejoñía, y
estormenanos nonrrias bisauras andial sata gabéres estormenamos á nonrros
bisaraores; y nasti nes muques petrar on la bajanbó, bus listrabanos de
chorre.—Anarania.
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