Re: [tied] Re: Albanian origins and much more

g wrote:

> NB: the Romanian spoken south of the Danube down to South of
> Serbia and as far in the West as Croatia (amazingly until today in some
> spots - of which one knows only because people from there went to
> Romania a couple of years ago to participate in appropriate festivals
> and cultural encounters)

We've already been over this on the list. The so-called IstroRomanians in
Istra in Croatia are very well known and there is a very good grammar and
dictionary of it etc. If somebody doesn't know of them, that can be
attributed only to ignorance or lack of interest...

>belongs to the same dialect as Romanian of
> Romania and Moldova and Transcarpathia and Northern Bulgaria, namely
> the "Dacoromanian" dialect. The other sorts of Romanian, spoken in the
> Epirus, Thessalia, Macedonia as well as in Istria (almost extinct) and
> some
> spots in Dalmatia (with the native-speakers barely able to utter
> something
> in that dialect, whereas their 1st perfect language is Croatian),

No such thing. The only Romanians in Croatia are those already mentioned
in Istra. They came to Istra rather recently (a couple of centuries ago)
from the island of Krk and to Krk they came from the region Lika in
Croatia and to Lika from the inner Balkans...

Mate