Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/SRAZ.65.36
Minority languages in the digital age. Daj Nostri and Bayash Romanian on social media
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković
; Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade
Abstract
The Bayash are a Romanian-speaking ethnic community spread all over the Balkans,
generally considered Roma by the majority populations. This paper deals with a specific
Bayash diaspora group, Daj Nostri (“our people”), from Austria, Germany and
Switzerland, who have recently started using their native variety, Bayash Romanian,
for online communication. The focus is on Daj Nostri Facebook group, which gathers
more than 9,000 members, and on the way they use Bayash Romanian online (instances
of use, frequency, spelling, plurilingual practices, etc.).
Keywords
Bayash, Romanian, minority languages, Facebook, online communication
Hrčak ID:
260768
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Publication date:
21.12.2020.
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