> Oh sure, it was full of Romanians around there at the time those
> inscriptions are dated.
There must've been Romanians among Bulgarians, even
if they weren't mentioned in the 7th-8th c. The Vlachs
didn't pop up out of the blue. ;)
> Not to mention that, the Protobulgarians
> failed to borrow anything else from Romanian in their
> inscriptions. How inconsistent of them.
It depends on the interpreter (as I already anecdotically
mentioned one). And it depends on what's acknowledged as
Romanian loanword and what not. Due to scarcity of evidences
(as well as due to the sad fact that the scientific community
virtually knows nothing of the local substrate languages),
there'll be forever much space free for all kind of
speculations. Especially of the proto-chronistic kind.
(And seemingly you didn't pay heed to my fröhlichem
Smiley. :))
> Eva
George