Romanitatea balcanică şi contactele ei cu slavii
Balkan Romanians and their Contact with the Slavs

Summary/Abstract: In "The Balkan Romance Population and Its Contacts with Slavs," we deal with the chronology and the place of the cultural and linguistic interference between Slavic and Romance populations in the Balkan Peninsula. First, we discuss the Roman occupation of the region, its later settlement by the Slavic peoples and the ethnogenesis of the Albanians. Secondly, we analyse the Romance and Slavic contacts that led to long-term bilingualism and two parallel processes – the assimilation of the Vlachs by the Slavs and the assimilation of the Slavs by the Vlachs. The result of these processes are, on the one hand, the Romance influences upon Bulgarian and Macedonian and, on the other, the Old Slavic influences upon Romanian, amplified by the influence of the Church Slavonic language upon the old Romanian texts. Finally, we present an outline history of the research on the Slavic influences upon the grammatical structure of Romanian, presenting different opinions of the linguists about this question.

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