Excerpt from Romano Lavo-Lil: Word-Book of the Romany; Or, English Gypsy Language The Author of the present work wishes to state that the Vocabulary, which forms part of it, has existed in manuscript for many years. It is orte of several vocabularies of various dialects of the Gypsy tongue, made by him in different countries. The most considerable - that of the dialect of the Zincali or Rumijelies (romany Chals) of Spain was published in the year 1841. Amongst those which remain unpublished is one of the Transyl vanian Gypsy, made principally at Kolosvar in the year 1844. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.