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Mandi never dik’d a gaujo to roker Romanes, pensa a Bengauler mandi once met in Derbyshire. We were jalin’ along the drom with our vardos, and I was the shorengro and mandi dik’d a moosh beshin’ apré a stigher, and his mooï was kaulo pensa Romani-chal, and he pen’d to mandi, “Sar shan, pal?” and I dik’d at lesti, and yov kek pen’d variso till some gaujos sar lenghi’s wardos had jal’d past, and then I said, “Are you a Romani-chal?” and he pen’d, “Kek, mandi shom a Bengauler. Mandi didn’t kom to roker aglál dula gairi,” and then we roker’d a bauro cheerus, and mandi jin’d sor yov pen’d. So you dik the Bengaulers can roker Romanes.

And a waver cheerus mandi was adré the Korengi-tém, and a kaulo moosh sas odoi adré a kitchema mendi atch’d at. He was holin’ kal-mauro and peein’ pobesko-livena. Kavakeí moosh dik’d at mendi a bauro cheerus. “Sarshan, pal?” hotchov—as it might be your kokero, rei, to-raati. “Sarshan, bor?” hotchov, “shan tooti Romani?” “Kek, I’m an Injun,” hotchov. “Does tooti jiness Romanes?” hotchov. “Our, pal, doova’s mandi’s nogo chib,” hotchov. And we roker’d ketnes a bauro cheerus; and he didn’t jin sor mandi pen’d to lesti, don’t you dikéss, rei, and mandi didn’t jin sor leski’s lavyáw, but mandi jin’d dosta.

—B.C. Smart, M.D., & H.T. Crofton:
The Dialect of the English Gypsies,
London, 1875.

adré — in
aglál — before
apré — on
atch — stop
bauro — big
besh — sit
bor — mate
chal — fellow
cheerus — time
chib — tongue
dik — look, see
doova — that
drom — road
dula — those
gairi — men (Gentiles)
gaujo — Gentile

hol — eat
hotchov — quotha
jal — go
jin — know, understand
kal — cheese
kaulo — black
kavakeí — this here
kek — no, not
ketnes — together
kitchema — inn
kokero — self
kom — love, like
Korengi-tém — Potters' District (= Staffordshire)
lavyáw — words
lenghi — their
leski — his

lesti — him
livena — beer
mandi — I
mauro — bread
mendi — we
mooï — face
moosh — man
nogo — own
odoi — there
our — yes
pal — friend
pee — drink
pen — say
pensa — as, like
pobo — apple
raati — night

rei — sir
roker — talk
Romanes — Romany
Romani — Gypsy
sar — with
sas — was
shan — thou art
shom — I am
shorengro — chief
sor — all
stigher — gate
tooti — thou
vardo, wardo — cart
variso — anything
waver — other
yov — he

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