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Domari is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by older Dom people scattered across the Middle East and North Africa. The language is reported to be spoken as far north as Azerbaijan and as far south as central Sudan, in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Syria and Lebanon.〔 Based on the systematicity of sound changes, we know with a fair degree of certainty that the names ''Domari'' and ''Romani'' derive from the Indian word ''(unicode:ḍom)''.〔http://romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/whatis/language/origins.shtml〕 Domari is also known as "Middle Eastern Romani", "Tsigene", "Luti", or "Mehtar". There is no standard written form. In the Arab world, it is occasionally written using the Arabic script and has many Arabic and Persian loanwords.〔(The Gypsies of Lebanon: ) A DRC Update, April 2000, by Dr. G. A. Williams〕 Descriptive work was done by Yaron Matras (1996)〔()〕 who published a comprehensive grammar of the language along with an historical and dialectological evaluation of secondary sources (Matras 2012). == Dialects == The best-known variety of Domari is Palestinian Domari, also known as "Syrian Gypsy", the dialect of the Dom community of Jerusalem, which was described by R.A. S. Macalister in the 1910s. Palestinian Domari is an endangered language, with fewer than 200 speakers, the majority of the 1,200 members of the Jerusalem Domari community being native speakers of Palestinian Arabic. Other dialects include: *Nawari in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Egypt. *Kurbati (Ghorbati) in Syria and western Iran *Helebi in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco *Halab/Ghajar in Sudan.〔http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3458001552.html〕 *Karachi (Garachi) in northern Turkey, northern Iran, the Caucasus and southern Russia *Marashi in Turkey *Lyuli and Maznoug in Uzbekistan and Asian Russia *Barake in Syria *Churi-Wali in Afghanistan *Domaki and Wogri-Boli in India Some dialects may be highly divergent and not mutually intelligible. Published sources often lump together dialects of Domari and the various unrelated in-group vocabularies of diverse peripatetic populations in the Middle East. Thus there is no evidence at all that the Lyuli, for example, speak a dialect of Domari, not is there any obvious connection between Domari and the vocabulary used by the Helebi of Egypt (see discussion in Matras 2012, chapter 1). The small Seb Seliyer language of Iran is distinctive in its core vocabulary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Domari language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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