Elementul autohton în dialectul istroromân între menţinere şi dispariţie
The Native Element in the Istroromanian Dialect –between Preservation and Disappearance

Summary/Abstract: Considering a list of approximately 90 words which Romanian language must have preserved from the Native Substrate and of a few that might be of native origin, elaborated by Brancuş (Vocabularul), the author analyses a total of 60 terms. From those, 25 were preserved in Istroromanian (some of them have equivalents of a different origin), and another 5 terms, before disappearing completely, left proof of their existence in the Western Romanian linguistics and culture (represented by the ancestors of the Istroromanians), whereas another 30 have disappeared without a trace and they were subsequently replaced by words borrowed from the languages of the populations with which they came into contact . The words of native origin have disappeared from Istroromanian because of: the period of Bilinguism and even Multilinguism, an active and long process, and of the abandonment of traditional occupations (especially sheep herding). The native terms that had been maintained in the Istroromanian Dialect are terms of Romanian origin that can be found in Balkan languages and on the Dalmatian and Istrian Coasts, most of them being also present in Albanese,.

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