Balkan Romance languages

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Balkan Romance
Geographic
distribution		Balkans and part of Eastern Europe
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Subdivisions
Glottologeast2714
Map-balkans-vlachs.png
Geographical distribution of the four Balkan Romance languages in the early-20th-century

The Balkan Romance languages, also known as Daco-Romance languages, form the easternmost sub-branch[1] of the Romance language family.[2]

Languages[]

Balkan Romance comprises Romanian (or Daco-Romanian), Aromanian (or Macedo-Romanian), Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian, according to the most widely accepted classification of the Romance languages.[1][3][4][5][6] The four languages—sometimes labelled as "dialects" of Romanian[1]—developed from a common ancestor.[6] They are surrounded by non-Romance languages.[7] Judaeo-Spanish (or Ladino) is also spoken in the Balkan Peninsula, but it is rarely listed among the Balkan Romance languages because it is rather an Iberian Romance language that developed as a Jewish lect of Old Spanish in the far west of Europe, and it only began to be spoken widely in the Balkans after the influx of Ladino-speaking refugees into the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Schulte 2009, p. 231.
  2. ^ Mallinson 1988, pp. 22–23.
  3. ^ Mallinson 1988, p. 23.
  4. ^ Posner 1996, pp. 217–218.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Lindstedt 2014, p. 168.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Maiden 2016, p. 91.
  7. ^ Posner 1996, p. 217.

Sources[]

  • Harris, Martin (1988). Harris, Martin; Vincent, Nigel (eds.). The Romance Languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 1–25. ISBN 978-0-19-520829-0.
  • Lindstedt, Jouko (2014). "Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance: from congruence to convergence". In Besters-Dilger, Juliane; Dermarkar, Cynthia; Pfänder, Stefan; Rabus, Achim (eds.). Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change: Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 168–183. ISBN 978-3-11-033834-8.
  • Maiden, Martin (2016). "Romanian, Istro–Romanian, Megleno–Romanian, and Arumanian". In Ledgeway, Adam; Maiden, Martin (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 91–125. ISBN 978-0-19-967710-8.
  • Posner, Rebecca (1996). The Romance Languages. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52-128139-3.
  • Schulte, Kim (2009). "Loanwords in Romanian". In Haspelmath, Martin; Tadmor, Uri (eds.). Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 230–259. ISBN 978-3-11-021843-5.


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