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 Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:28 am
Will someone please explain to me the history of Romanian...apparently it's a Romance Langauge. What is a Romance Langauge doing in Eastern Europe? How did this happen? What the heck happened over there? Why is a Romanian a Romance Langauge when there are no other Romance Langauges around with a significant presence for hundreds and hundreds of miles? Well there's Italy, but would all the mountains in the Balkan Peninsula sort of hinder interaction? confused
I have a sneaking suspicion this has something to do with the Roman Empire. stare
Please tell me about this...
Thanks.
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:16 pm
APPARENTLY, Romanian fits in the 'proposed subfamilies'
Quote: Proposed subfamilies The main subfamiles that have been proposed by Ethnologue within the various classification schemes for Romance languages are: * Italo-Western, the largest group which includes languages such as Italian, Spanish, and French. * Eastern Romance, which includes the Romance languages of Eastern Europe, such as Romanian. * Southern Romance, which includes a few languages with particularly archaic features, such as Sardinian and, partially, Corsican.
* From wiki
That quote was when i looked up 'Romance Languages' But when i looked at the family of Romanian on a separate search it still says its an Indo-European purely.
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:09 pm
It's very closely related to latin.
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:41 pm
Well, since all Romance languages derive from Latin, I'd say Romanian is not only closely related, but a direct descendant from Latin. At the time of the Roman Empire, Vulgar Latin used to be spoken on some areas which had left no direct daughter language, like North Africa (which shifted to Arabic). Any romance language spoken near Romania probably died, with speakers shifting to a germanic or slavic language, or maybe Hungarian. However, I'd say that although it is descendant from Latin, it sounds almost alien to me (my native language being portuguese) , and probably to any spanish, french or italian-speaking person. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:00 am
The Romans controlled the area now known as Romania for a while. That's how there's a Latin language there. Romanian and French have a lot of similarities.
Why doesn't it bother you that Latin languages are spread through out portugal, spain, france, italy, Mexico, and all of south america?
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:29 am
Romanian is one of the Romance languages because Romania was conquered by Rome.
Romance languages means they are derived from Latin, which is what the Romans spoke. 3nodding
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