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Learn Romani. Das-Dúma Rromanes

2006· article· pt· W53419804 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueRomani Studies · 2006
Typearticle
Languagept
FieldHealth Professions
TopicRomani and Gypsy Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContext (archaeology)DiasporaReading (process)HistoryLinguisticsGeographySociologyArchaeologyGender studies
DOInot available

Abstract

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Learn Romani. Das-duma Rromanes. Ronald Lee. 2005. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press. 320 pp. isbn 1-902806-44-1. The aim of this book is to serve as a guide for learners of Romani-specifically, of the Kelderash dialect. It is organised in Lessons, accompanied by a word list (referred to as a 'dictionary', pp. 274-303), recommendations for reading, and an overview compiled by Edward Proctor of materials for further study of Kelderash and related dialects (pp. 305-12). As is well known, Romani dialects show considerable structural variation, and learners who approach the language outside of a particular setting or context are likely to want to seek advice as to which Romani dialect to concentrate their efforts on. Kelderash is a good choice. Firstly, it is widespread in urban 'diaspora' communities of Roms around the world. These go back to migrations of Kelderash and related groups in the second half of the nineteenth century, from Transylvania, where the Kelderash first formed as a group; large communities are found in places such as Buenos Aires, Toronto, Stockholm, Chicago, Paris, and Moscow. Next, Kelderash's original location (i.e. its area of formation as a distinct dialect) is more or less in the centre of the distribution areas of Romani dialects, i.e. in the border area of Serbia, Hungary, and Romania, the southern edges of the historical Austrian Empire. This geographical position gives the dialect a linguistic advantage: it is easily understood both by speakers of Romani to the north of the area (for example in the Trans-Carpathian regions, and as far north as the Baltics), as well as to the south, throughout the Balkans. If there is a dialect with the potential of serving as a 'pan-Romani' speech variety, then in many respects it is Kelderash. For these and other reasons, there are also more teaching materials available for Kelderash than for any other dialect. Other recent works include Hancock's (1995) popular grammatical sketch of a Kelderash dialect spoken in the United States, and Krasa and Heinschink's (2004) German-Kelderash phrase book with audio CD. The book's target audience are students with experience of working with a grammar book, and the text assumes familiarity with basic, secondary-school level grammatical terminology. Writing Romani is problematic in view of the diversity of orthographic conventions used by Roms in different parts of Europe and beyond. Lee chooses his own, idiosyncratic writing system. Its principal aim is to avoid any diacritic symbols that are difficult to produce without special fonts (while still allowing characters such as /o/, /a/, or /e/). …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.436
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.105
GPT teacher head0.449
Teacher spread0.344 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it