Description: GLS C/2/1 - Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales

Reviews of Sampson's The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales and letters of congratulation. Analysis of Romany words/phonetics. Comprises:

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Summary:	Reviews of Sampson's The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales and letters of congratulation. Analysis of Romany words/phonetics. Comprises: GLS C/2/1 1-15: Reviews and letters of congratulation, Sept 1926-July 1928 GLS C/2/1 17-20: Advertisement and prospectus GLS C/2/1 21-26: Reviews GLS C/2/1 27-28: Reviews in journals, and undated notes by Sampson GLS C/2/1 29: Newscuttings GLS C/2/1 30: Proofs of reviews in journals GLS C/2/1 31-: Drafts of grammatical work List of correspondents: 'Bill' MacAlister, Donald Elton, Oliver Dowdall, H. C. Dawkins, R. M. Collinson, W. E. Cole, F. J. Chatterji, Suniti Kumar St John Brooks, E. Gordon, George Wyld, H. C.
Date:	1926-1928
Reference Number:	GLS C/2/1
Biographical/Administrative Information:	John Sampson, Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales (OxfordClarendon Press1926). See SPEC SCOTT MACFIE A.6.75 "This comparative study of Romani as one of the Modern Indian languages provides the philologist with all he can need upon the grammar and derivation of the Gypsy tongue; and in its copious vocabulary, comparable only with that of Paspati, we meet the Gypsy Woods themselves and hear the 'veritable talk of the tents'." (Ackerley). "It is the best of all linguistic studies in any language ... it brings honour to Oxford, to the Gypsy Lore Society and to British scholarship." (Macfie) "the greatest single linguistic study of Romani ever published" (Angus Fraser, 1996)