Istro-Romanian language

Spoken in

  • Indo-European Italic Romanesque Balkanromanisch Romanian Istrorumänisch

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The Istrorumänische is a Romance (small) language or a Romanian dialect, which is spoken by the Istrorumänen in some villages in the mountainous country to the northeast of the Istrian peninsula in Croatia.

Classification

The Istrorumänische can be just like the ( Daco- ) Romanian, Aromanian and Meglenorumänische attributed to the Urrumänische or proto- Romanian, which in turn was developed from the Vulgar Latin Southeastern Europe. Together with these three varieties makes it within the Romance languages ​​Romanian language group within the Balkan Romance languages.

Whether ( Dako ) Romanian, Aromanian and Meglenorumänisch and Istrorumänisch are to be regarded as dialects of a single language or as four separate languages ​​about different views are represented in the Romance linguistics. In the older Romance the four emerged from the Urrumänischen varieties were regarded as dialects of a single Romanian language due to their common origin, and said structural similarity. In parts of the younger Romance these four forms of language primarily because of its long-standing socio- linguistic autonomy are classified as separate languages.

History

The ancestors of the Istrorumänen are probably immigrated into their present area of ​​settlement during the Middle Ages by the central or northern Balkans.

In sources from the 17th century a self-designation Rumeri is (presumably Rumar, plural Rumari ) handed the Istrorumänen that goes back as well as the self- designations of the Romanians and Vlachs on Romanus. However, this was by Vlachs, originally the Slavic name for the foreign Istrorumänen displaced.

In the past (eg in the then standard work " The Austro- Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures "), this ethnic group has been referred to as " Chi Chen " ( according to the region " Cicarija ").

Sociolinguistic status

The Istrorumänen are all bilingual and speak in addition to their own language and Croatian. The use of the Istrorumänischen limited to the oral use among the locals. Also in censuses, the Istrorumänen usually declare as Croats.

Due to the long-running multilingual vocabulary, sometimes the grammar of Istrorumänischen are strongly influenced by the Croatian (formerly between the Istrorumänischen and the local Croatian dialect today, including the Croatian standard language ). Therefore, there are, among others - and the Romance languages, unique - a completely distinctive aspect system as in Slavic.

Istrorumänisch is generally written to the spelling rules of the Romanian language and, in comparison with these 3 additional special characters.

Dialects

The Istrorumänische language has two dialects:

  • The northern dialect, spoken in Zejane where still live about 140 Istrorumänen.
  • The southern dialect, 8 km south of Zejane, with a larger number of speakers, is spoken in the villages that lie along the river Rasa and on the southern slopes of the Učka Mountains: Šušnjevica ( istrorum. Şuşńeviţe ), Nova Vas ( Nosela ) Brdo ( BARDA ), Jesenovik ( Sucodru ) and a few other towns where scattered some istrorumänische families live.
Language family Italic languages Aromanians Grammatical aspect
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