Re: [tied] Re: south slavic

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 15522
Date: 2002-09-16

 
Because there was nobody to Romanise them. They came to the Balkans in post-Roman times. Of couse many originally Slavic communities must have merged with the Greeks, Magyars, Vlachs, Albanians, etc. If some of them switched from Slavic to early Romanian, you can call that "Rumanisation".
 
Piotr
 
 
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[Moeller]
A question wakes up all the time around my tired neurons
here:-))
Why did not the south slavic became romanized?