Aromanian – Language or Dialect? Overview of Historical and Contemporary Opinions

Anna Oczko

Aromanian – Language or Dialect? Overview of Historical and Contemporary Opinions

Publication date: 05.08.2021

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 21 (2021), Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 105 - 114

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.21.011.14066

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Aromanian – Language or Dialect? Overview of Historical and Contemporary Opinions

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This article aims at presenting two concepts from the modern typology of the Romance languages, with a special focus on the Aromanian ethnolect. The first concept, which is widely accepted in the Romanian linguistics and was most prevalent before the Second World War, does not recognise Aromanian as a separate language, but treats it as one of four dialects of the Romanian language. The second movement, much closer to modern Romanist research at the international level, opts for a full autonomy of all Balkan Romance ethnolects and attributes to them statuses of national languages. It also negates the existence of a common Romanian language in the first millennium, arguing that the Balkan Romance languages developed independently from a late form of Balkan Latin around the 11th century.

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Aromanians, Aromanian language, Romanian dialectology, Romanian language, Balkan Romance languages

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Information: Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 21 (2021), Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 105 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.21.011.14066

Article type: Original article

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Aromanian – Language or Dialect? Overview of Historical and Contemporary Opinions

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Aromanian – Language or Dialect? Overview of Historical and Contemporary Opinions

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Anna Oczko

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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 05.08.2021

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