Marcel Courthiade

Marcel Courthiade (French pronunciation: [kuʁtjad]; 2 August 1953 – 4 March 2021) was a French Romani linguist and researcher.^[1]

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Marcel Courthiade
Courthiade in 2008
Born	2 August 1953 Montceau-les-Mines, France
Died	4 March 2021(2021-03-04) (aged 67) Tirana, Albania
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Linguist Researcher
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Courthiade had originally studied medicine at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, but then shifted his focus on Slavic languages—particularly Serbo-Croatian and Polish. He then studied at the INALCO in Paris, where he earned a diploma in Polish, Macedonian, and Albanian. He titled his doctoral thesis Phonologie des variétés dialectales de Rromani et diasystèmes graphiques de la langue Romani,^[a] a degree he earned from the École pratique des hautes études.

During his studies, Courthiade worked for several NGOs regarding education for Romani people in Albania. Subsequently, he worked as a political analyst and interpreter at the French Embassy in Albania for four years. In 1997, he became a lecturer at INALCO. In 2008, he was a key participant of Louis Mochet's film Rromani Soul. In 2019, he became a member of the scientific council Délégué interministériel à la lutte contre le racisme, l'antisémitisme et la haine anti-LGBT [fr].^[2][b]

Marcel Courthiade died in Tirana on 4 March 2021 at the age of 67 from unknown causes.^[3]

• Romani fonetika thaj Lekhipa (1986)
• Xàca dùme, but godi (1980s)
• Gramatika e gjuhës Rrome (1989)
• Stuart Manns Wörterbuch des albanischen Romanes (1990)
• In the margin of Romani. Gypsy languages in contact (1991)
• Dialektologikano pućhipnasqo lil vaś-i klasifikàcia e rromane ćhibǎqe [dia]lektenqiri (1992)
• Śirpustik. amare ćhibǎqiri (1992)
• Lil e Efesianěnqe. Epistoli pros Efesioys (1993)
• Terre d'asile, terre d'exil. l'Europe tsigane (1993)
• De l'usage de l'abécédaire « Śirpustik amare ćhibǎqiri » (1994)
• Langues de Diaspora (1994)
• Phonologie des parlers rrom et diasysteme graphique de la langue romani (1995)
• Structure dialectale de la langue rromani (1998)
• Les Rroms, Ashkalis et Gorans de Dardanie (Kosovo) (2000)^[4]
• Les Tziganes ou le destin sauvage des Roms de l'Est (2002)
• Appendix Two. Kannauʒ on the Ganges, cradle of the Rromani people (2004)
• Les Rroms dans les belles lettres européennes (2004)
• La Langue rromani, d'un millénaire à l'autre, Études Tsiganes (2005)
• Sagesse et humour du peuple rrom (2007)
• L'origine des Rroms. Cheminement d'une (re)découverte : Kannauj « berceau » du peuple rrom» (2007)
• La littérature des Rroms, Sintés et Kalés