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CATEGORIES:Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group
SUMMARY:Endangered languages in contact: Domari in its eth
 nographic and cultural context - Yaron Matras (Uni
 versity of Manchester)
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DESCRIPTION:Domari is the name of a language spoken by peripat
 etic communities across the Middle East\, currentl
 y attested mainly in Syria\, Lebanon\, Jordan and 
 Palestine. The paper focuses on the variety spoken
  in Jerusalem\, which is the only one to have been
  documented extensively (Matras 2012). Domari is a
 n Indic language\, which shows some archaic featur
 es\, but also a language that has been heavily inf
 luenced by contact\, especially with Arabic. The l
 anguage was already endangered when I began my doc
 umentation in Jerusalem in 1996\, and is now morib
 und\, and probably has just one single living flue
 nt speaker and a few semi-speakers. My paper discu
 sses the ethnographic setting\, the language’s his
 tory and the reasons for its abandonment\, and tou
 ches on some theoretical dilemmas of linguistic de
 scription and analysis that arise through the whol
 esale import of entire structural categories from 
 Arabic into Domari.\n\nYaron Matras is Professor o
 f Linguistics at the University of Manchester. His
  research interests include language contact\, urb
 an multilingualism\, linguistic typology\, dialect
 ology and language documentation\, and he has work
 ed on various languages of the Middle East includi
 ng Kurdish\, Arabic\, and Domari.
LOCATION:Faculty of English\, Room GR-06/07
CONTACT:Dr Oliver Mayeux
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