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SUMMARY:Norwegian Romani - the 'languageness' of a Para-Romani variety - J
 akob Wiedner\, University of Oslo
DTSTART:20170510T161500Z
DTEND:20170510T180000Z
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CONTACT:Hanna Danbolt Ajer
DESCRIPTION:In my presentation I will speak about one of Norway's official
 ly recognised minority languages\, Norwegian Romani spoken by the Romanifo
 lk or Tater minority community. First\, I will give an overview of the Rom
 ani language in general\, the phenomenon of so-called Para-Romani varietie
 s and the Norwegian variety in particular. Since Para-Romani varieties do 
 not make use of Romani grammar but consist of Romani lexicon used in the g
 rammatical frame of the majority language\, in the present case dialectal 
 Norwegian\, there is a dispute if such varieties can be seen as languages 
 on their own or as special vocabularies. This dispute\, both in academia a
 nd among the speaker community\, leads to different approaches to language
 ness\, i.e. the question in which case a certain variety is perceived as a
  language. I will present different approaches to the languageness of Norw
 egian Romani given by three different sources: scientific literature\, Nor
 wegian government white papers and passages from interviews with community
  activists. I conclude my presentation with an overview of how the differe
 nt approaches to the languageness of Norwegian Romani bear potential confl
 icts in regard to the planning of language revitalisation projects.\n\nJak
 ob Wiedner has undertaken research on various Romani languages\, and has p
 reviously been a member of the Romani Project at the University of Graz. H
 e recently completed his PhD on Norwegian Romani at the Multilingualism Ce
 nter at the University of Oslo. The project investigated the sociolinguist
 ic situation of Norwegian Romani\, as well as its grammar and lexicon.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of English\, Room GR-05
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