Pdfcbvcv Chapter Loanwords in Romanian Kim SchulteThe language and its speakers Romanian also known as Rumanian sometimes also spelt Roumanian especially until the s belongs to the Romance languages which form a branch of the Indo-European language family
Chapter Loanwords in Romanian Kim SchulteThe language and its speakers Romanian also known as Rumanian sometimes also spelt Roumanian especially until the s belongs to the Romance languages which form a branch of the Indo-European language family Among the Romance languages Romanian belongs to the Daco-Romance sub-branch of the Eastern Romance branch There are four distinct Daco-Romance languages all of which are frequently referred to as di ?erent ??dialects ? of Romanian Aromanian c speakers in the Republic of Macedonia Albania northern Greece Serbia and Bulgaria Megleno-Romanian c speakers in northern Greece and the Republic of Macedonia IstroRomanian c speakers in the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia and DacoRomanian c million speakers in Romania and Moldova The subdatabase for Romanian is restricted to the lexicon of Daco-Romanian the language generally referred to as Romanian in everyday usage Throughout the remainder of this chapter Romanian will be used as a synonym for Daco-Romanian Romanian used in all domains from the most informal to the most o ?cial is the o ?cial language of Romania and the adjoining Republic of Moldova Both are located in south-eastern Europe northeast of the Balkan Peninsula in an area including the inner and outer arch of the southern Carpathian Mountains from the lower Danube in the southwest and south of the territory to the river Dniester in the northeast This Romanian-speaking area is surrounded by speakers of nonRomance languages namely Hungarian and several Slavic languages Ukrainian Bulgarian Serbian Beyond the territories of Romania and the Republic of Moldova Romanian has co-o ?cial status in the Vojvodina Province in northern Serbia and speakers of Romanian also live in areas of Ukraine close to the Romanian and Moldovan borders There is a large Romanian diaspora estimated at around eight million people with concentrations in North America Australia and Israel due to recent emigration there are also Romanian communities of considerable size in Italy and Spain about one million in each country The subdatabase of the World Loanword Database that accompanies this chapter is available online at http wold livingsources org It is a separate electronic publication that should be cited as Schulte Kim Romanian vocabulary In Haspelmath Martin Tadmor Uri eds World Loanword Database Munich Max Planck Digital Library entries http wold livingsources org vocabulary Brought to you by Penn State - The Pennsylvania State University Authenticated Download Date PM C Loanwords in Romanian Within Romania several historically established minority languages are spoken by the corresponding ethnic groups the most signi ?cant of which are the Hungarians in western and central Transylvania as well as the Romani minority the latter constituting approximately ten percent of the overall population Smaller ethnic groups include Albanians Turks mainly along the Danube in south-eastern Romania Tatars mainly in the Dobrogea region Russian Lipovens in the Danube Delta and speakers of other Slavic languages mainly near the borders with the respective countries Whilst Romanian is the second language for some speakers of these minority languages the majority can be considered to be partly or
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