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{{See also|List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin}} |
{{See also|List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin}} |
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The mainstream view among scholars is that Daco-Moesian forms the principal linguistic [[Substrata (linguistics)|substratum]] of modern [[Romanian language|Romanian]], a neo-Latin ([[Romance languages|Romance]]) language, which evolved from eastern [[Eastern Romance languages|Eastern Romance]] in the period AD 300–600, according to Georgiev.{{sfn|Georgiev|1977|p=287}} The possible residual influence of Daco-Moesian on modern Romanian is limited to a modest number of words and a few grammatical peculiarities.<ref>cf {{harvnb|Georgiev|1977|p={{Page needed|date=October 2021}}.}}</ref> According to Georgiev (1981), in Romanian there are about 70 words which have exact correspondences in Albanian, but the phonetic form of these Romanian words is so specific that they cannot be explained as Albanian borrowings. Georgiev claimed that these words belong to the Dacian substratum in Romanian, while their Albanian correspondences were inherited from Daco-Moesian.{{sfn|Georgiev|1981|p=142}}{{Clarify|reason=Isn't that a matter of definition? If the words in question were borrowed from Daco-Moesian, and if Albanian is descended from it, then they are still from an ancestral form of Albanian, just one that isn't usually called "Albanian", just as the ancient form of Romance is usually called Latin or Vulgar Latin.|date=October 2012}} |
According to some scholars Dacian constitutes the main source of pre-Romance features in modern [[Romanian language|Romanian]], a neo-Latin ([[Romance languages|Romance]]) language, which evolved from eastern [[Eastern Romance languages|Eastern Romance]] in the period AD 300–600, according to Georgiev.{{sfn|Georgiev|1977|p=287}} The possible residual influence of Daco-Moesian on modern Romanian is limited to a modest number of words and a few grammatical peculiarities.<ref>cf {{harvnb|Georgiev|1977|p={{Page needed|date=October 2021}}.}}</ref> |
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As in the case of any Romance language, it is argued that Romanian language derived from [[Vulgar Latin]] through a series of internal linguistic changes and because of Dacian or northern Thracian influences on Vulgar Latin in the late Roman era. This influence explains a number of differences between the Romanian-Thracian substrate and the French-Celtic, Spanish-Basque, and Portuguese-Celtic substrates.{{sfn|Appel|Muysken|2006|p={{Page needed|date=October 2021}}}} Romanian has no major dialects, perhaps a reflection of its origin in a small mountain region, which was inaccessible but permitted easy internal communication. The history of Romanian is based on speculation because there are virtually no written records of the area from the time of the withdrawal of the Romans around 300 AD until the end of the barbarian invasions around 1300 AD.{{sfn|Walters|1988|p=18}} |
As in the case of any Romance language, it is argued that Romanian language derived from [[Vulgar Latin]] through a series of internal linguistic changes and because of Dacian or northern Thracian influences on Vulgar Latin in the late Roman era. This influence explains a number of differences between the Romanian-Thracian substrate and the French-Celtic, Spanish-Basque, and Portuguese-Celtic substrates.{{sfn|Appel|Muysken|2006|p={{Page needed|date=October 2021}}}} Romanian has no major dialects, perhaps a reflection of its origin in a small mountain region, which was inaccessible but permitted easy internal communication. The history of Romanian is based on speculation because there are virtually no written records of the area from the time of the withdrawal of the Romans around 300 AD until the end of the barbarian invasions around 1300 AD.{{sfn|Walters|1988|p=18}} |
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Many scholars, mostly Romanian, have conducted research into a Dacian linguistic substratum for the modern Romanian language. There is still not enough hard evidence for this. None of the few Dacian words known (mainly plant-names) and none of the [[List of reconstructed Dacian words|Dacian words reconstructed from placenames]] have specific correspondent words in Romanian (as opposed to general correspondents in several IE languages). DEX doesn't mention any Dacian etymology, just a number of terms of unknown origin. Most of these are assumed by several scholars to be of Dacian origin, but there is no strong proof that they are. They could, in some cases, also be of pre-Indo-European origin (i.e. truly indigenous, from [[Stone Age]] Carpathian languages), or, if clearly Indo-European, be of [[Sarmatian]] origin – but there's no proof for this either. |
Many scholars, mostly Romanian, have conducted research into a Dacian linguistic substratum for the modern Romanian language. There is still not enough evidence for this. None of the few Dacian words known (mainly plant-names) and none of the [[List of reconstructed Dacian words|Dacian words reconstructed from placenames]] have specific correspondent words in Romanian (as opposed to general correspondents in several IE languages). DEX doesn't mention any Dacian etymology, just a number of terms of unknown origin. Most of these are assumed by several scholars to be of Dacian origin, but there is no proof that they are. They could, in some cases, also be of pre-Indo-European origin (i.e. truly indigenous, from [[Stone Age]] Carpathian languages), or, if clearly Indo-European, be of [[Sarmatian]] origin – but there's no proof for this either. |
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It seems plausible that a few Dacian words may have survived in the speech of the Carpathian inhabitants through successive changes in the region's predominant languages: Dacian/Celtic (to AD 100), Latin/Sarmatian (c. 100–300), Germanic (c. 300–500), Slavic/Turkic (c. 500–1300), up to the Romanian language when the latter became the predominant language in the region. |
It seems plausible that a few Dacian words may have survived in the speech of the Carpathian inhabitants through successive changes in the region's predominant languages: Dacian/Celtic (to AD 100), Latin/Sarmatian (c. 100–300), Germanic (c. 300–500), Slavic/Turkic (c. 500–1300), up to the Romanian language when the latter became the predominant language in the region. |
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