“Molisarav tut, de man…” Asking for Favor in Two Romani Dialects
Huseyin Kyuchuk
DOI: 10.18355/XL.2026.19.01.04
Abstract
The paper aims to present the polite ways of “asking for favor” in two Roma communities – in the in Bulgaria and in Czech Republic. Different Romani forms of “asking” are introduced and compared with Hindi. Linguistic evidence of “asking” in formal and informal settings are presented and compared according to the religion of the Roma in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria - Christian and Muslim Roma. Forms of politeness between adults and children are also presented and these are compared with publications in the area of pragmatics and child language development.
Key words: Romani, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, politeness
Pages: 53-64
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