A Grammar of Domari

Domari is one of numerous languages spoken in my home town of Jerusalem –
though one of which I only became aware as a professional linguist, having
consulted the libraries of European universities and having read in press
reports about the continuing presence of the tiny community of ‘Nawar’ or
‘Gypsies’. Now, more than a decade and a half after I heard and recorded the
first phrases in spoken Domari, only very few people among the Jerusalem
Dom – at the time of writing probably between ten and twenty – are still able
to converse in a language that had been preserved in their socially isolated,
diasporic community for at least 800 years or more. This book, and the audio
recordings that accompany it online, are a testimony to this lost tongue.