Re: [tied] Genetic Link between Albanian and Romanian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

> 1. The numbers of what you named "albanian loans in Romanian" ,

and

> what I named "common inherited words in Albanian and Romanian" is
> between 80 - 100. An important number of them are located before

the

> period of Slavic Loans in Romanian or in Albanian.

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> 2. If you see the number of loans between Albanian and Romanian

we

> DON'T HAVE AT ALL AN IMPORTANT LIST (and to say that some of them

are

> lost is not enough). We have in Romanian about 5000 Slavic Words

(50

> times more) , about 300-400 Hungarian words (about 3-4 times

more),

> about 400-500 of Turks words (4-5 times more) etc...
> So the percentage of "common words" that we share with the
> Albanian are at a huge distant IN MINUS regarding other loans in
> Romanian.
> This is a clear evidence that the contact of the 2 languages
> wasn't as long as the contact that we have with the Slavic peoples
> (1400 years), with Hungarians (1000 years) or with Turks (600

years).

> Also part of this contact easily arrive in the Balkan Latin times,
> with another important part during the first wave of Slavic loans.

> 3. Such a small number of "common words" (or "loans" as you

named

> them) CANNOT JUSTIFY AT ALL, BY USING ONLY THE VICINITY ARGUMENT,

THE

> GREAT SIMILARITIES that we saw in the 2 Phonetical Systems :

Albanian

> and Romanian. (and I spoke about similarities IN A CONTEXT where

we

> have ONLY 100 common words)

This small number would appear to suggest that Romanian and Albanian
are not closely related!

> As you saw the similarities between the 2 phonetics systems
> could beat also the Italian that is the closest Romance Language

to

> Romanian. By contrary the similarities with Slavic languages,
> Hungarian or Turkish (despite the huge greater number of loanwords
> that we share with these neighbor languages) are less important

than

> the similarities that we have with Albanian.
> This is the STRONGEST ARGUMENT FOR A GENETIC LINK (a common
> ancient Balkan Language) and NOT FOR THE VICINITY (LOANS) THEORY.

How does the phonological system of Bulgarian compare?

Richard.