LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.10.13 (03) [EN]

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From: Brooks, Mark <mark.brooks at twc.state.tx.us>

Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.10.13 (02) [EN]



Dan wrote: “The other reason is that Romanian was in contact with case
distinguishing languages such as South Slavic and Greek, though we know
little about Dacian and its possible function of a substrate language.”



Thanks, Dan and Ron.  I had wondered about that exact thing.  In my own
rather part-time amateur theorizing, I reckoned that Slavic influences might
account for some of it.  I wrote a paper in one of my linguistics classes
about Romanian, and I remember that it has significant borrowing from Slavic
languages it had contact with.



Thanks again,

Mark Brooks



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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>

Subject: Language varieties



Mark, Dan, we also ought to consider longstanding contacts of Romanian with
Hungarian, a non-Indo-European language.



While all this is non-Lowlandic, the principles at work are relevant.



Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA

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