Megleno-Romanian language
| Megleno-Romanian language | ||
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Spoken in |
Greece , Northern Macedonia | |
| speaker | mother tongue 5,000–12,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
roa (other Romance languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
ruq |
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The Megleno- Romanian (more rarely also Meglenitic ) language is a language spoken in the border area between Greece and North Macedonia , which belongs to the Romanian group of Romance languages . Their speakers are known as Megleno Romanians .
Classification and History
The Meglenorumänische is closely related to Aromanian , (Dako) Romanian and Istrorumänischen related and can be just like this on the Urrumänische or proto Romanian attributed, in turn, from the Vulgar Latin had arisen Southeast Europe. Together with these three varieties, it forms the Romanian language group of the Balkan Romance languages within the Romance languages .
Whether (Daco) Romanian , Aromanian , Istrian Romanian and Megleno- Romanian are to be regarded as dialects of a single language or as four separate languages, different views are represented in Romance linguistics. In older Romance studies, the four varieties that emerged from Ur-Romanian were regarded as dialects of a single Romanian language due to their common origin and linguistic structural similarity. In parts of the more recent Romance studies, these four forms of language are classified as separate languages, mainly because of their long-standing sociolinguistic independence.
The differences between Megleno-Romanian and Aromanian spoken in close proximity can be traced back, among other things, to the different histories of the two ethnic groups. While the Aromanians have Greek influences in their language, the Megleno-Romanians have more Slavic elements. The Megleno-Romanians probably immigrated to their current settlement area in the 14th century from Wallachia . Their language has more in common with Dakor-Romanian.
distribution
Megleno-Romanian is spoken by a few thousand people today, whose settlement area is mainly in Greece, but also in North Macedonia. In the 1920s, several hundred Muslim Meglenorumans had to emigrate from Notia to Turkey . Another 2,000–3,000 people moved to Romania .
