Slav Influence Upon the Romanian Language – Direct References to Croatian
Slav Influence Upon the Romanian Language – Direct References to Croatian

Summary/Abstract: Romanian is a language of Latin origin as the amount of more than 70% of its lexicon proves, but the Slav lexical loans, alongside with those of German, Hungarian, Turkish, French and Greek origin, give its particular character as compared to other Romance languages. The article emphasizes the influence old Slav exercised upon the Romanian language and illustrates the present linguistic reality in this respect, making direct, particular references to linguistic facts common to both Croatian, as a Slav language, and Romanian. We consider this an important step in the field of knowledge by which readers will become aware of a less known linguistic aspect of the Romanian language – its Slav inherited lexicon. Starting from the words of Slav origin in Romanian, some of which are not in use any more, but which belong to the language of literature of past centuries, we traced them in Croatian through the instrumentality of dictionaries. By using a rather great number of Romanian examples we meant to endorse the idea of the article.

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