[gothic-l] Re: gothic traces in the east?

[tiefi at YAHOO.COM]

sorry for the semi-nomad.

Albanians and Vlachs were wandering herdsmen in their early times,
and there are interesting theories that most of Bosnian Serbs and
many Kosovar Albanians & Serbs descend from the wandering Vlachs
(lots of evidence around Ohrid and in Turk documents), and that they
are the forefathers of the Romanians (rather than romanized
Dacians...)
this is heavily disputed, but would deprive the base of Serb and
Albanian nationalism.

but however:
what i meant is that Vlach routes span over big parts of the Balkans
and they have formed from 'backwardish' Roman settlers, fleeing the
Slav expansion.
maybe Goths have joined them (or they were Goths originally).

I don't know if there have been studies on their language regarding
possible germanic influence, because few kept their language (there
are some in northern Greece, "Aromuns" i think, and some in Bulgaria,
Bosnia, Dalmatia but most gave up their tounge for the dominating one)



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