Review article
SLAV INFLUENCE UPON THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE – DIRECT REFERENCES TO CROATIAN
Camelia FIRICĂ
; "Spiru Haret" University, Craiova
Abstract
Romanian is a language of Latin origin as the amount of more
than 70% of its lexicon proves, but the Slav lexical loans,
alongside with those of German, Hungarian, Turkish, French
and Greek origin, give its particular character as compared to
other Romance languages. The article emphasizes the influence
old Slav exercised upon the Romanian language and illustrates
the present linguistic reality in this respect, making direct,
particular references to linguistic facts common to both
Croatian, as a Slav language, and Romanian. We consider this
an important step in the field of knowledge by which readers
will become aware of a less known linguistic aspect of the Romanian
language – its Slav inherited lexicon. Starting from the
words of Slav origin in Romanian, some of which are not in use
any more, but which belong to the language of literature of past
centuries, we traced them in Croatian through the instrumentality
of dictionaries. By using a rather great number of Romanian
examples we meant to endorse the idea of the article.
Keywords
influence; loans; Romanian; old Slav; Croatian
Hrčak ID:
55458
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2010.
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