From: george knysh
Message: 21634
Date: 2003-05-09
> george knysh wrote:*****GK: This is clearly something worth looking at
> > --- alex_lycos <altamix@...> wrote:
> >> The most illogical thing here is the very short
> time
> >> of Roman ocupation
> >> North of Danube versus " romanian did not
> innovated
> >> due missing conntact
> >> with the Roman World begining with the 3 century
> >> AC-> this imply
> >> Romanians NORTH OF DANUBE)
> >
> > GK: After the Roman abandonment of Dacia, the
> > territory north of the Danube was dominated for
> > centuries by Germanic (esp. Gothic) populations,
> > Transylvania included. We know that contiguity
> between
> > Germanics and Slavs resulted in the latter
> adopting a
> > fair number of words from the former. Is there any
> > evidence for something of the sort in
> Romanian?
>
> I guess there are some of them.
> �nnoi ( ana-nojan), �nhaita ( ana-haitan)etc. I did
> not compilled a list
> of this, it is working in progress.
>*****GK: Judging by the number of Slavic origin words
> Question: do you have any information about the life
> of vlah communities
> in south slavic environment and the intermingling of
> them with other
> folks? Or regardign the North of Danube, specially
> in Transilvania, do
> you have any information of "late" way of life of
> valahians with the
> germanics , hungarian in Transylvania? You will get
> very valuable infos
> about this question of you reading about this topic.
> I will recommand
> you the work of Johan Filstich "Tentamen Historiae
> Vallachicae". You
> will understand maybe better his words:
> " they ( germans ) lived separated by valahians ,
> every folk keeping its
> language and traditions and they did not mixed
> together..."
> It will confirm the words of Pushcariu about
> aromanians, where he
> mentions that in the XVIII century the aromanian
> women have been
> monolingual and they did not knew an another
> language beside Romanian
> even if they lived in Slavic or Greek or Albanian
> theritory.
> One over another, Romanian was the "lingua franca"
> in all this region
> without having any statal structure, comming from
> itself or maybe from
> the status of "language of the majority"?
> I have no idea why germans & slavs intermingled. I
> don't have too any
> idea why the romanians and other nations did not
> intermingled in the
> earlier time on a wide scala.