TEHLİKEDEKİ / GİZLİ DİL DOMANİ SÖZCÜK LİSTESİ ÜZERİNE BİR ÇALIŞMA

Domani is one of the secret Romani languages and it is an endangered language of East Anatolia due to its small number of speakers. Face-to-face interviews were made with Dom speakers living in Van and Ağrı-Doğubayazıt between 2017 and 2019. A Domani-Turkish word list was created with the narratives of Dom speakers, using Kurmanji as an intermediary language, which is typologically similar to Domani. Domani, under the influence of Kurmanji and Turkish, preserves a small number of its core lexicon and is striking in sociolinguistic terms, as it contains the cultural characteristics of the society to which the language belongs and linguistic elements related to the use of secret language. It can be understood that the social position of the speakers of the language is determinant in language contact and change, depending on the functional and pragmatic characteristics of the units of the Domani vocabulary. The words have three different appearances: sourced Domani root language, re-formed with various suffixes and Domanified, and belonging to dominant contact languages. As a result of the Dom community's sharing the same living space with the societies that are users of dominant languages and efforts of Doms to adapt to these societies in social and economic terms, Domani may also loses its function as a secret language in the near future.