Gheorghe Sarău (born 21 April 1956, Segarcea-Vale,

Teleorman County Teleorman County () is a county ( județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the historical region Muntenia, with its capital city at Alexandria. The name ''Teleorman'' is of Cumanic ( Turkic) origin. It literally means ''wild/crazy for ...

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) is a

n linguist specialized in the

Romani language Romani ( ; also Romanes , Romany, Roma; ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani people. The largest of these are Vlax Romani language, Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers), Balkan Romani (600,000), and Sinte Roma ...

. He is the author of several Romani textbooks and plays an important role in the process of standardization of the Romani language. He studied at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures,

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

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- Hungarian section, from where he graduated in 1983. During his student years, he also studied Bulgarian,

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, English and French. While at the faculty, he came across a book on

Romani people {{Infobox ethnic group , group = Romani people , image = , image_caption = , flag = Roma flag.svg , flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress , po ...

by Jean Vaillant, which also contained a short introduction to the Romani language. He started to study the language and learn it by himself. Sarău published a large number of articles and papers on the Romani language and participated at numerous national and international conferences on the language.

References

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Gheorghe Sarău, an Alexandru Graur of the Romani people
* Gheorghe Sarău - Bibliografie şi activitate (Gheorghe Sarău - Bibliography and activity), Bucharest 2009,

External links

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Gheorghe Sarău's blog
*
Interview with Gheorghe Sarău

1956 births Living people People from Teleorman County Linguists from Romania Linguists of Romani {{Romania-linguist-stub

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