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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Brandon Grotesque Regular";color:#006666;text-transform:uppercase">16th International Conference on Romani Linguistics<br>
23-25 September 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt">Ketabali Zargari, the last ashik performer of the Zargari community in Iran
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt">© 2019, Ioana Aminian Jazi</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">The ICRL is the principal forum for scholarly exchange in Romani linguistics. The conference ethos is to encourage the application of methods and theory from
general linguistics to Romani, and to identify distinctive issues where the study of Romani has the potential to enrich discussions in general linguistics. Founded in 1993 in Hamburg by Yaron Matras, the conference scope has expanded to include experimental
and corpus-based methods, ethnolinguistic and anthropological research, and philological work on early printed sources, databases and digital atlases. The spectrum of linguistic varieties ranges from varieties and contact varieties of Romani from regions such
as Italy, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Ukraine, and Iran to historically related dialects such as Domari and Lomavren from the Middle East and the Caucasus.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">This year's conference includes contributions from all areas of Romani linguistics, including aspects of multilingualism and language education with Romani, language
policy, descriptive and historical linguistics, and language documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Campus of the Austrian Academy of Sciences<br>
Bäckerstraße 13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/newsevents/registration/conference-registration"><span lang="EN-GB">ICRL16 Registration →</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ioana Aminian Jazi<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/team/current-team/ioana-aminian-jazi"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. Ioana Aminian Jazi</span></b></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH)<br>
Austrian Academy of Sciences </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">T: +43 151581 2243</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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