To browse Academia. Bruno Herin. Northern Domari. Berlin: Language Science Press. This chapter provides an overview of the linguistic outcomes of contact between Arabic and Northern Domari. It remained until very recently largely unexplored. This article presents unpublished first-hand linguistic data collected in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.
In Manfredi S. Arabic in Contact. John Benjamins, Berlin: Language Science Press, Masson-Berghoff and E. Pernicka, 'Origins of metals for countless bronzes', in A. Masson-Berghoff ed. Hirschfeld, Ramat Hanadiv Excavations, pp. Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link.
Need an account? Click here to sign up. Northern Domari Bruno Herin. The Doms are historically itinerant communities who specialize in service economies. This occupational profile led the lay public to call them the Middle Eastern Gypsies. Common occupations are informal dentistry, metalwork, instrument crafting, entertainment and begging.
Most claim Sunni Islam as their religion, with various degrees of syncretic practices. Although most have given up their semi-nomadic lifestyle and settled in the periphery of urban centres, mobility is still a salient element in the daily lives of many Doms.
From the nineteenth century onwards, European travellers reported the existence of Domari in the shape of word lists collected in the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq and the Levant see Herin for a discussion of these sources.
