La langue romani: une fiction historique
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Cécile Canut [1]
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[1] Universidad Paris René Descartes
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- Localización: Langage et société, ISSN 0181-4095, ISSN-e 2101-0382, Nº. 136, 2011, págs. 55-80
- Idioma: francés
- Títulos paralelos:
- The Romani Language: A Historical Fiction
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Resumen
For a long time, the various populations called, depending on their history and their travels, Bohemians, Egyptians, Tziganes, Romanis, Roma, Sinti, etc., crisscrossed numerous continents without worrying about the common origin of their language. The emergence of nation-states and, as an indirect consequence, the exclusion of these populations led a small number of intellectuals, anxious to claim a political role, to adopt a particular stance. Without a territory, a particular religion, or cultural or ethnic homogeneity, the new minority established itself in international space by “inventing” a common language. This article traces the historical process of linguistic essentialization through a study of the circulation of discourses around Romani čib in order to analyze the current political and economic uses that result from this process.
