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Biography. Mrvica was born in Šibenik, Croatia. He took piano lessons at the age of nine. [2] Three years later he gave his first concert performance of Haydn 's Piano Concerto in C major. When the Croatian war of independence started in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies.
Romani literature or Roma literature is literature by Romani people. It is composed of both written and oral literature. [1][2] Authors may most likely reside in various countries throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa and these continents have a long history of being home to Romani people. [3] One aspect of Romani literature are ...
e. 1552 woodcut of a Romani family. The Romani people are a distinct ethnic and cultural group of peoples living all across the globe, who share a family of languages and sometimes a traditional nomadic mode of life. [1] Though their exact origins were unclear, [2] recent studies show Kashmir in Northwest India is the most probable point of ...
t. e. Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India during the Middle Ages. They migrated widely, particularly to Europe, while other groups stayed and became sedentary. Some legends (often from non-Romani peoples) say that certain Romani ...
Maria Baiulescu (1860–1941), writer, women's rights activist. Zsófia Balla (born 1949) prominent Romanian-born Hungarian poet, essayist. Carmen-Francesca Banciu (born 1955), novelist. Linda Maria Baros (born 1981), Romanian-born highly acclaimed French-language poet, translator, critic. Marthe Bibesco (1886–1973), novelist, short story ...
WikiProject. v. t. e. Romani music (often referred to as gypsy or gipsy music, which is sometimes considered a derogatory term) [1][2][3][4][5][6] is the music of the Romani people who have their origins in northern India but today live mostly in Europe. Historically nomadic, though now largely settled, the Romani people have long acted as ...
Finnish Romani (or Finnish Kalo) is written with the following alphabet: [11] The letters in parentheses are only used in loanwords and are therefore not always part of the alphabet. The digraphs dž, kh, ph, th, and tš are used, but are not letters of the alphabet. Š and Ž are only used in these digraphs.
List of English words of Romani origin. These are words in the English language which potentially come from Romani. chav (wikt:chav) – an anti-social youth (from chavi "child") [1][2] cosh (wikt:cosh) – a weapon, truncheon, baton (from košter "stick") cove (wikt:cove) – British-English colloquial term meaning a person or chap (from kova ...