Re: [tied] Re: south slavic

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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----- Original Message ----- From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [tied] Re: slavic methathesis [Moeller] A question wakes up all the time around my tired neurons here:-)) Why did not the south slavic became romanized?