Balkan linguistic union - Languages

Balkan linguistic union or Balkansprachbund is a name given to the similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology found in the languages of the Balkans, which belong to various Indo-European branches, such as Albanian, Greek, Romance and Slavic. While the common vocabulary between each language is relatively small, the grammars of the languages have a high degree of similarity, among which the adoption of a standard case system and a movement toward analyzation. Balkan linguistic union - History< ...

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The languages that share these similarities belong to five distinct branches of the Indo-European languages: Albanian Modern Greek Indo-Iranian (Arli Romany/Gypsy) Romance languages (Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian) Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian Torlak) However, not all of these languages have the same number of features shared. That is why they are divided into three groups: Albanian, Romanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian hav ...

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Balkan linguistic union - Grammatical features. The number of cases is reduced, several cases being replaced with prepositions, the only exception being Serbian. A common case system of a Balkan language is: Nominative Accusative (using prepositions and the form in the nominative case) Dative / Genitive (merged) Vocative In the Balkan languages, the genitive and dative cases (or corresponding prepositional constructions) are merged. Example: (Dadoh knigata na Mariya ...

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The earliest scholar to notice the similarities between Balkan languages belonging to different families was the Slovenian scholar Jernej Kopitar in 1829 [1], but only in the 1920s and 1930s the theory was developed, with important contributions Gustav Weigand and Kristian Sandfeld-Jensen (Linguistique balkanique, 1930). The term "Balkan linguistic union" was coined by the Romanian linguist Alexandru Rosetti in 1958, when he claimed that th ...

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The source of these features as well as the directions have long been debated, various theories being suggested. Balkan linguistic union - Thracian Dacian or Illyrian. Since most of these features cannot be found in languages related to those that belong to the linguistic union (such as other Slavic or Romance languages), the early researchers, including Kopitar, believed they had to be inherited from the ancient indigenous languages (Thracian, Dacian and Illyrian) which fo ...

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(under development) Most likely the earliest contact was between the Proto-Romanians and Proto-Albanians, (1st century - 5th century AD) this theory being supported by the Albanian vocabulary borrowed from Balkan Latin, as well as the Romanian substrate, which has words cognates to Albanian words. The exact area where the contact occurred is under debate, ranging from Northern Albania to Transylvania, for more, see Origin of Romanians and Origin of Albanians. All Romanian varieties (from the Republic of Moldova to the Vlachs of Serbia) are part of the sp ...

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