willemvermeer wrote:
>> Ohrid seems to have had a great importance from a different point
>> of view: the Church; there was the primordial see of the local
>> highest hierarch of the Orthodox Church. All Romanians belonged
>> in the beginning to this diocese; the North Danubian Romanians
>> got their own metropolitan sees much-much later on.
>
>
> I've seen that, but my understanding of Church history is so limited
> that I don't know what to do with it.
In so far I am informed, the languages used by Slavonic Church did not
played any building role in the language of Romanians. The Slavic loans are
mostly before the Slavic methathesis, aka prior IX century. Important
appears here these loans which will show -on the theorie of bilinguismus-
the Slavs melted/cohabited with Romanians _before_ IX century. The later
loans from the Slavonic Church are non signifiant for the languages but they
are interesting for being compared with the early loans. These "early"
loans, are -coincidence again- very common with Albanian as well. I mean,
apparently the Albanians and Romanians loaned _almost_ the same words from
Slavs. BTW, the Bulgarian hydronimy , specialy that of North-East shouldn't
be Slavic but I cannot give some examples ad hoc.
Alex
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