Re: Loans, Slavs, Church

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>Similarly it is almost a clichee of the study of Albanian and
>Romanian that it is possible to draw a joint Albanian-Romanian
>dialect map. Romanian as a whole is just a shade closer to Tosk
>(North Albanian) than to Geg (South Albanian). But within Romanian,
>the North (IR&DR) is in turn just a shade more Tosk than the South
>(MR&AR). [...] with the Romanian north staying in contact longer
>with Albanian (Tosk) than the Romanian south.

Is that sure? For, AFAIK, in Aromanian the rhotacization of
the [n] is more frequent than in DR (e.g. the proverb <<Bate
fieru pira-i coad>>, DR <<Bate fieru pâna-i cald>>).

>Willem

George