Linguistic overview

Romani is an inflectional language, i.e. a language where inflection exists, e.g. the conjugation of verbs according to person or tense, or the change of nouns according to number or declension.

Apart from the rampant polonisation of Polish Romani dialects, it is their typical feature to add Polish suffixes to verbs, e.g. dźa (go!) - wydźa (go out!), to translate and absorb previously unused phrases from the Polish language, e.g. na kameł pes man  (nie chce mi się [I don't want to/I can't be bothered]) or ćhurde jakhesa (rzuć okiem; [have a look!; lit. to throw an eye]).

Another distinguishing feature of the Polish dialects of Romani is the presence of the consonant "ł" (IPA /w/) which is not present in any other dialects.