Balkan Romance languages
The Balkan Romance languages, also known as Daco-Romance languages, form the easternmost sub-branch[1] of the Romance language family.[2]
Balkan Romance | |
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Geographic distribution | Balkans and part of Eastern Europe |
Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | macr1262 |
Geographical distribution of the four Balkan Romance languages in the early-20th-century |
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 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
- Schulte 2009, p. 231.
- Mallinson 1988, pp. 22–23.
- Mallinson 1988, p. 23.
- Posner 1996, pp. 217–218.
- Lindstedt 2014, p. 168.
- Maiden 2016, p. 91.
- Posner 1996, p. 217.
Sources
- Harris, Martin (1988). "The Romance Languages". In Harris, Martin; Vincent, Nigel (eds.). The Romance Languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 1–25. ISBN 978-0-19-520829-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Posner, Rebecca (1996). The Romance Languages. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52-128139-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)