Produkce vydavatelství Romaňi čhib: Lingvoliterární aspekty jedné významné vlny romského národního obrození

Roma began to emancipate themselves more significantly as a non-territorial minority in the former Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 20th century. Emancipation has taken place in various successive and parallel waves. The article presents one of these waves, centred around the Romaňi čhib publishing house and the personalities of Margita Reiznerová and Gejza Demeter. The production of the publishing house (whose name meant ‘Romani Language’) differed from other emancipatory activities in its conception of Romani as the primary communicative language of the national minority. The magazine called Romano gendalos (‘Romani Mirror’) published texts in Romani with a minimum of language contact products, and the books published were monolingual, only in Romani. The author traces the origins, the peak period in 1992 and the gradual demise of this interesting ethno-emancipatory project.