Issues of Language and Citizenship in the Roma Broadcast and Print Media of the Vojvodina Autonomous Province of Serbia

This article focuses on the description of the multilingual media context in the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina, underlining the role of local institutions in promoting and supporting a number of minority languages, in line with the city’s historical legacy of multiculturalism. I will devote particular attention to the status of the Romani language by illustrating the efforts made by the Roma intellectual elite to increase the status of their endangered mother tongue at an official level. In particular, I will take into account the contribution of local media such as Radio Television of Vojvodina’s emissions in Romani language and the trilingual (English/Serbian/Romani) bulletin issued by the Roma Inclusion, “The Decade of Roma Inclusion in the Autonomous Vojvodina Province” to the construction of a discourse on language awareness and to the ongoing standardization process of the Romani language.