The earliest vocabulary of Romani words ( c .1515) in the Collectanea of Johannes ex Grafing, a student of Johannes Reuchlin and Conrad Celtis
2010; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3828/rs.2010.1
ISSN1757-2274
Autores Tópico(s)Eastern European Communism and Reforms
ResumoThirteen unpublished lines of a Latin–Romani vocabulary in a manuscript in Munichrepresent the earliest document recording efforts to put words of Romani, 'primarilyan oral language' (Matras 2002: 238), into writing. The Benedictine compiler and scribeof the list was familiar with important contemporary German scholars, a fact that mayenhance the authenticity of his numerous excerpts and explain the almost scholarlyapproach to such exotic languages as Romani. It can be assumed that the 'interviewer'got his information in Vienna around 1515, preceding the often adduced vocabulariesof Borde (1542), Ewsum (before 1570), Vulcanius (1597), Çelebi (1668), and Marsden(1785). He organized the results of his questioning neatly in groups, heavenly bodies,humans and animals, food, and cardinal numerals.
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