Origin Of The Rumanians PDF Download

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Origin of the Romanians, Thraco-Roman, Balkan sprachbund, List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin, Proto-Romanian language, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, Neac u's letter, Latin-to-Romanian sound changes, Eastern Romance substratum, Jire ek Line, Bucharest Bible of 1688, Romanian lexis. Excerpt: The origin of the Romanians - the ethnogenesis of the Romanian people (speakers of a Romance language in Southeastern Europe) - can be traced back to the region's Romanized inhabitants living, within the Roman Empire, in the lands north of the Jire ek Line (an imaginary line which had divided the influences of the Latin and Greek languages in Southeastern Europe before the 4th century). Besides the Romans and the Romanized autochthonous population (Dacians, Thracians or Illyrians), the Slavs also played a vital role in the formation of the Romanians. The early Romanian language, perhaps as early as the 10th century, began to split into four dialects which later tended to become languages in their own right. The principal one, in terms of numbers, is Daco-Romanian, with approximately 25 million speakers. The second largest division is called Aromanian. The other two divisions (Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian) are quite limited in extent. All these peoples share the Vlach exonym (first recorded in the 11th century by Byzantine authors) which indicates that they have been perceived as speakers of a Romance language. The origin of the Romanians became subject to heated controversy, primarily for political reasons, as early as the 18th century. On the one hand the denial of Romanian continuity on the territory of present-day Romania corresponded to Austro-Hungarian objectives; on the other, by claiming a "Daco-Roman" descent, the Romanians of Transylvania demanded political rights equal to those owned by...