Audio samples of Jerusalem Domari

Below you can listen to audio samples of Jerusalem Domari. These are extracted from a corpus of recordings carried out by Yaron Matras between 1996-2001 with speakers of the language in Jerusalem. The audio files are accompanied by transcripts, which also appear in the appendix to Matras’s monograph length description of the dialect (A Grammar of Domari, Mouton 2012). A full analysis of the content and features of the tales in sample 5 (The origin of the Dom) can be found in Matras’s article on Two Domari legends on the origin of the Doms, from 2000.