AndreiB wrote:Many linguists consider Aromanian to be the closest language to Romanian
dimos wrote:unfortunately the aromanian language has adopted many foreign words, especially greek. but like every language it can be cleared. what makes it more difficult is that there is not any serious organization interested in the survival of aromanian.
if an official alphabet is adopted things will be easier because those who want to learn the language can do it. this will help the native speakers to retain the language.
dimos wrote:i didn't know that the aromanian issue is so organised! it's encouraging
now i want to get involved...
Dinko1704986 wrote:I'd love to learn Aromanian, but unfortunately it's not easy to find written sources at all :S
there is a significant Aromanian-speaking minority in Eastern Serbia, but they have neither newspapers in their language, nor schools...just a single church for some 30 000 people, that's sad :S
AndreiB wrote:Dinko1704986 wrote:I'd love to learn Aromanian, but unfortunately it's not easy to find written sources at all :S
there is a significant Aromanian-speaking minority in Eastern Serbia, but they have neither newspapers in their language, nor schools...just a single church for some 30 000 people, that's sad :S
I guess you're speaking about Vlahs? Vlahs are not Aromanians,and their language is Romanian(more precisely the Romanian spoken like 120 years ago,untouched by neologisms).
Dinko1704986 wrote:
I am indeed talking about Vlahs. There are Aromanian speakers in Serbia, but according to Ethnologue, not in the valley of Timoc (http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=rup) My bad but are you sure the Vlach language is closer to archaic Romanian ? I know it doesn't have, for example, the more recent borrowings from French and Italian, but I thought it had completly lost the infinitive, and such, isn't that true ?
duko wrote:Risking to go totally off topic here, but my Slovak dialect uses "sekera" for axe. Can't tell what the standard variety uses. Is this a borrowing from Romanian then?
About the Najlepša Vlajna 2009 contest, if I only didn't live 1000km away from there... Mind you I'm still quite near to my favorite river: Danube.
Quick, someone say something about Aromanian and steer the topic back where it should be
AndreiB wrote: [...] Vlahs are not Aromanians, [...]
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