Re: The Vlach Connection

--- S & L <mbusines@...> wrote:

> > --- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > > "The Vlach Connection" - is the best 'theory'
> > > that I could find
> >
> > > Please read it, is really great:
> > > http://www.friesian.com/decdenc2.htm
> > GK: What's "great" about it? It starts out
> with a
> > falsified linguistic map of Moldova (where are the
> > Gagauz? Where are the numerous Ukrainian and
> Russian
> > enclaves?) and of southern Odesa Province.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Where they should be; ON the map ! The gagauz are
> listed as bulgarians.

*****GK: The speakers of a Turkic language are mixed
in with the speakers of a Slavic language and that's
"how it should be" in your opinion?*****


The

> map is quite accurate from THIS perspective.

*****GK: It's completely inaccurate. Not only because
it ignores the existence of the Gagauzi in Odesa
Region (they have settlements just north of the
Bulgarians there), but primarily because it doesn't
recognize them in Moldova proper, where most of them
actually live, and where they even have an autonomous
administrative district.*****

Anyhow,

> the gagauzi were
> colonized in today Moldova Republic only at the end
> of XVIII century [see
> http://www.jmu.edu/orgs/wrni/gagauzia25.htm ].

*****GK: So what? This map is supposed to render
contemporary linguistic realities. And to repeat, it
falsely suggests that Moldovans are abundantly present
in southern Odesa Region, where they are actually less
numerous than Bulgarians, Ukrainians, and Russians,
and it ignores the large Ukrainian and Russian
enclaves in Moldova, especially but not exclusively
east of the Dnister.*****


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