The volume 'General and applied Romani linguistics' presents papers form the 6th International Conference on Romani Linguistics 2002 in Graz, Austria. The collection reflects recent trends in Romani linguistics. The last decades of saw both an intensification of the traditional subdisciplines, such as descriptive linguistics and dialectology, as well as the emergence of new subdisciplines, e.g. computational linguistics and sociolinguistics. Parallel to this Romani linguists, using Romani as an unique and valuable language sample, more and more participated in theoretical linguistic discussion.Section 1 contains two papers on dialectology. Matras proposes a groundbreaking new approach to the classification of Romani dialects, whileIgla concentrates on the internal classification of a particular dialect group of Romani. Section 2 features descriptive studies on Romani varieties with little documentation so far (Sechidou on a Greek Romani dialect, Cherenkov on aRussian dialect, Adiego on Spanish Caló and Lapov on Romani varieties inCroatia). The papers in section 3 all discuss language change in Romani. Some are concerned with contact-induced language change (Schrammel, Draganova and to some extent Pirttisaari), others discuss language internal change (Boretzky, Simonsen). Section 4 finally introduces computational Romani linguistics with a paper by Granquist on a morphological parser for Romani. The final section contains papers on different aspects of Romani sociolinguistics (Friedman on the future of Romani in Macedonia, Petrović &Stefanović on Roma refugees in Kosovo, Marushiakova & Popov on the communication of nomadic Gypsy groups). Contents:1. Romani dialectologyYaron Matras: The classification of Romani dialects: A geographic-historical perspectiveBirgit Igla: Sinti-Manuš: Aspects of classification2. Descriptive studies on individual Romani dialectsLev. N. Cherenkov: The Plaščuny and their dialectIrene Sechidou: The dialect of Ajios AthanasiosIgnasi-Xavier Adiego: The Vestiges of Caló TodayZoran Lapov: The Romani groups and dialects in Croatia. With a special emphasis on the Romani borrowings in the Croatian language3. Language change with and without contactDesislava Draganova: Turkish verbs in Bulgarian RomaniBarbara Schrammel: Borrowed verbal particles and prefixes: A comparative approachHelena Pirttisaari: A functional approach to the distribution of participle suffixes in Finnish RomaniNorbert Boretzky: Metathesis and other, functionally related, sound changes in RomaniGitte Grønning Simonsen: Semantic changes in body parts from Sanskrit to Romani4. Computational linguisticsKimmo Granqvist: ROMTWOL - An implementation of a two-level morphological processor for Finnish Romani5. SociolinguisticsVictor A. Friedman: The Romani language in Macedonia in the third millennium: progress and problemsJelena Petrović & Lada Stefanović: Socio-linguistic aspects of language ofRoma refugees from Kosovo - A comparative studyElena Marushiakova & Vesselin Popov: Communications between nomadic Gypsy groups