
	Where results make sense

Topic: Balkan linguistic union

Related Topics

List of languages that survived oblivion

Balkan languages

Grammatical gender

Minority language

Language revival

Bulgarian language

Macedonian language

Language families and languages

European languages

Romanian language

Dacian language

List of Dacian words

Sprachbund

Romanian proverbs

Dalmatian language

In the News (Mon 16 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	The Balkan Linguistic Union
		The Turks, occupying various regions all over the Balkan peninsula during the period of their domination, are at present concentrated mainly in its southeastern parts.
		Balkanisms appear equally in the speech of Northern Rumanians living in the Timok valley, south of the Danube, in Transylvania, Wallachia (Muntenia) or Moldova.
		In linguistics to replace the notion of origin with that of “affinity,” as one wants to do now, means to attribute to phonetics and vocabulary and to syntax more importance than to morphology, and consequently, to substitute the superficial for the essential.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/B/Balkan_Linguistic_Union.html (985 words)

	OJPCR 2.4: Influencing Public Opinion - A Challenge for Activists
		After Greek independence, the future Balkan Union was foreseen as an alliance of free and independent nations, abiding by the principles of equality, autonomy, and interdependence.
		Balkan consciousness was to be the antithesis of foreign intrusion in Southeastern Europe.
		For one thing, in the Balkans, people as well as states were ready, at the beginning of the 1990s, to embrace the idea of their common destiny with the rest of Europe in a true European Union.
	trinstitute.org /ojpcr/p2_4kavalski.htm (4686 words)

	Balkan linguistic union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balkan linguistic union or Balkansprachbund is a name given to the similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology found in the languages of the Balkans, which belong to various Indo-European branches, such as Albanian, Greek, Romance and Slavic.
		The Roman Empire ruled all the Balkans and it would be possible that a local variation of Latin left its mark on all the languages of the Balkans, which later were the substrate to the Slavic newcomers.
		Several hundreds of words are common to the Balkan union languages, the origin of most of them is either Greek or Turkish language, as the Byzantine Empire and later the Ottoman Empire had a strong influence on the culture and economics of this region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balkan_linguistic_union (1858 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Balkan linguistic union (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Balkan linguistic union or Balkan sprachbund (additional info and facts about sprachbund) is a name given to the similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology found in the languages of the Balkans (The major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula).
		The term "Balkan linguistic union" was coined by the Romanian (A native or inhabitant of Romania) linguist Alexandru Rosetti in 1958, when he claimed that the shared features conferred the Balkan languages them a special semblance.
		In the Balkan languages, the genitive (The case expressing ownership) and dative (The category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb) cases (or corresponding prepositional constructions) are merged.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/balkan_linguistic_union.htm (1631 words)

	BALKAN PENINSULA - LoveToKnow Article on BALKAN PENINSULA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first, the speech of the conquering race, was the official language; the second, owing to the intellectual and literary superiority of the Greeks, their educational zeal and the privileges acquired by their church, became the language of the upper classes among the Christians.
		The revival of the various Balkan nationalities was in every case accompanied or preceded by a literary movement; in Servian literature, under the influence of Obradovich and Vuk Karajich, the popular idiom, notwithstanding the opposition of the priesthood, superseded the ecclesiastical RussianSlavonic; in Bulgaria the eastern dialect, that of the Sredna Gora, prevailed.
		In 1886 the informal union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria was sanctioned by Europe, the districts of Tumrush (Rhodope) and Krjali being given back to the sultan.
	14.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BALKAN_PENINSULA.htm (5272 words)

	Balkans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Balkans are sometimes referred to as the "Balkan Peninsula" as they are surrounded by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
		The northern border of the Balkan peninsula is usually considered be the line formed by the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers and a segment connecting the spring of the Kupa with the Kvarner Bay.
		The Balkan nations began to regain their independence in the 19th century(Greece), and in 1912-1913 a Balkan League reduced Turkey's territory to its present extent in the Balkan Wars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balkan (2397 words)

	Balkan linguistic union - Balkans (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Balkan linguistic union or Balkan sprachbund is a name given to the similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology found in the languages of the Balkans.
		Another language that may have been influenced by the Balkan Language Union is the Judeo-Spanish variant that used to be spoken by Saphardi Jews living in the Balkans.
		Since most of these features cannot be found in languages related to those that belong to the linguistic union (such as other Slavic or Romance languages), the early researchers believed they had to be inherited from the ancient indigenous languages (Thracian, Dacian and Illyrian) which formed the substrate for the modern Balkan languages.
	www.balkans.eu.com /wiki/index.php?title=Balkan_linguistic_union (1506 words)

	Greek language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Greek has been spoken in the Balkan Peninsula since the 2nd millennium BC.
		The earliest evidence of this is found in the Linear B tablets dating from 1500 BC.
		It is a member of the Balkan Linguistic Union.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Greek_language (1675 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some linguists, including all Bulgarian and Greek ones are of the opinion that Macedonian language is only a regional norm of Bulgarian.
		The prehistoric period (essentially proto-Slavic) occurred between the Slavonic invasion of the eastern Balkans and the mission of St.
		Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from other Slavic languages, such as the elimination of noun declension, the development of a suffixed definite article (possibly inherited from the Bulgar language), the lack of a verb infinitive, and the retention and further development of the proto-Slavic verb system.
	www.stylokna.pl /wikipedia/Bulgarian_language (2903 words)

	Balkans Article, Balkans Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The larger land mass is sometimes referred to as the Balkan peninsula as it is surrounded by the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, Marmara and Black seas from thesouthwest, south and southeast.
		The use of this term to mean the Balkan peninsula (and only that) technically ignores the geographical presenceof northern Romania and the Ukraine,which are also located in the southeastern part of the European continent.
		The Balkan nations began to regain their independence in the 19thcentury, and in 1912 - 1913 a Balkan League reducedTurkey's territory to its present extent in the Balkan Wars.
	www.anoca.org /balkan/countries/balkans.html (1544 words)

	Natural language - encyclopedia article - Citizendium
		Linguistic scholars have described natural languages as a system of symbols (sometimes known as lexemes) and the grammar (rules) by which the symbols are manipulated.
		Inherent in its analytic approach are the concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme, and the root.
		The task of genetic classification belongs to the field of historical-comparative linguistics, of typological - to linguistic typology.
	en.citizendium.org /wiki/Natural_language (1166 words)

	Romanian_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		All the dialects of Romanian are believed to have been unified in a Common Romanian language until sometime between the 7th and the 10th century when the area was influenced by the Byzantine Empire and Romanian became influenced by the Slavonic languages.
		An alternate name for Romanian used by linguists to disambiguate with the other Eastern Romance languages is "Daco-Romanian", referring to the area where it is spoken (which corresponds roughly to the onetime Roman province of Dacia).
		The introduction of the law concerning the functioning of the languages (September 1989), still effective in Moldova according to the Constitution [2], asserts the linguistic identity between the Romanian language and the Moldovan language.
	www.school-explorer.com /Romenian (3623 words)

	Federal Union of European Nationalities FUEN DOCUMENTS
		The Assembly of Delegates of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) supports the proposal for a future international status settlement for Kosovo, which was presented by the special envoy of the United Nations, Matti Ahtisaari.
		The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) is with 81 member organisations in 30 countries of Europe the largest umbrella organisation of the autochthonous national minorities in Europe.
		In this context the European Union / EU Commission is explicitly called upon to seize the initiative and to formulate an appropriate language policy, together with the member states and the autochthonous national minorities in Europe.
	www.fuen.org /pages/english/e_5c_2002.html (3206 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Balkan States
		The Balkan Peninsula is bordered on the east and west by the Black, Ionian, and Adriatic Seas, and on the north and south by the Aegean Sea and the Sawa and Danube Rivers.
		The other nations of the Balkan Peninsula, such as Albania, Macedonia, Hungary, Romania, and Greece are both closely connected to and divided from the former Yugoslav states by religion, ethnicity, history, and economics.
		Many Balkan lesbians can be found working in the feminist peace movement in such groups as Women In Black, a women's peace network founded by Israeli women protesting their government's treatment of the Palestinians.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/balkan_states.html (850 words)

	biology - Romanian language
		Due to its geographical isolation, Romanian was probably the first language that split and until the modern age was not influenced by other Romance languages, so the grammar is roughly similar to that of Latin, keeping declensions and the neuter gender, unlike any other Romance language.
		All the dialects of Romanian are believed to have been unified in a common language until sometime between the 7th and the 10th century when the area was influenced by the Byzantine Empire and Romanian came under the influence of the Slavic language.
		Some linguists believe that in fact Albanians are Dacians who were not Romanized, and migrated south.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Romanian_language (1965 words)

	Cineaste: Is There a Balkan Cinema?
		Although the Balkan peoples have the tendency to think of themselves in opposition to their geographic or ethnic neighbors, and to consider aspects of the regional cultural heritage as exclusively theirs, it is this need for diversification that unites them.
		This tendency becomes the connecting link of Balkan cinema, and, at the same time, reveals common traits such as a shared turbulent history and politics, the marginalized identity of the region, the current transitory state of affairs, and their rebellious mentality.
		It is their tragic history that unites the Balkan countries in my mind, their political divisions and redivisions, the politically maneuvered blood feuds breeding endless violence and, on the other hand, the Balkan people's astonishing resiliency, their ability to survive ceaseless turmoil, to intermarry, intermingle, and laugh at themselves.
	www.cineaste.com /articles/is-there-a-balkan-cinema.htm (5383 words)

	Holiday Property to Rent in Bulgaria
		Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from other Slavic languages, such as the elimination of noun declension, the development of a suffixed definite article (see Balkan linguistic union), the lack of a verb infinitive, and the retention and further development of the proto-Slavic verb system.
		Bulgarian is closely related to Macedonian, generally recognized as a distinct language, although the prevalent opinion in Bulgaria, to some extent in Greece, and that of certain international linguists is that Bulgarian and Macedonian are two standard forms of the same diasystem.
		Bulgarian and Macedonian form part of the Balkan linguistic union, which also includes Greek, Romanian, Albanian and Torlakian dialect of the Serbian language.
	www.therightresort.com /region-selection/bulgaria.php (385 words)

	[No title]
		Balkanisms appear equally in the speech of Northern Rumanians living in the Timok valley, south of the Danube, in Transylvania, Muntenia or Moldavia.
		The age in which the Balkan languages borrowed this large amount of Greek elements and elements of speech from one another, cannot be determined in all cases.
		Between the Bulgarians in the east and the Serbs in the west, in the centre of the Balkan peninsula, an intensively Romanized region was preserved for a long time after the migration of the Slavs to the Balkans.
	www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/dunay/dunay05.htm (7434 words)

	Professor Victor Friedman
		The Indefiniteness of ‘one’ in its Macedonian and Balkan Context.
		Diferencijacijata na makedonskiot i bugarskiot jazik vo balkanskata sredina (Macedonian: The differentiation of Macedonian and Bulgarian in the Balkan context).
		The Daco Romanian Presumptive in Its Balkan Context.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /depts/slavic/friedman.html (13244 words)

	\| SEE University - English \|
		Cycle Program in Balkan Studies at SEEU emphasizes the regional and interdisciplinary approach towards Balkan Studies, focusing on the Balkan languages as the strongest communication tool for mutual linguistic and cultural understanding.
		Competences: General theoretical knowledge of languages in contact; Theoretical concept applied to Balkan languages (Balkan Linguistic Union); Advanced knowledge of Albanian and Macedonian in their Balkan context; Familiarity with all other Balkan languages; General knowledge of the Literatures and the Folklore of the Balkans; Good knowledge of common history and cultural heritage of the Balkans.
		Cycle Program in Balkan Studies will be composed of 90 ECST credits and be taught full-time over the course of three semesters (30 credits each).
	www.seeu.edu.mk /english/balkans.asp (928 words)

	Analytic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a result, German can be said to lie between the agglutinative and fusional areas of the spectrum of linguistic typology.
		Bulgarian is the only analytic Slavic language acquiring this feature from the Balkan linguistic union.
		In the beginning, cases began to mix sounds; this paved the way for the distinctions between forms to be forgotten.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Analytic_language (565 words)

	Balkan Connection - Business & Opportunities
		The Balkans are sometimes referred to as the Balkan peninsula as they are surrounded by the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, Marmara and Black seas from the southwest, south and southeast.
		The northern border of the Balkan peninsula is generally considered be the line formed by the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers and a segment connecting the spring of the Kupa with the Kvarner Bay.
		The Balkan nations began to regain their independence in the 19th century, and in 1912-1913 a Balkan League reduced Turkey''''s territory to its present extent in the Balkan Wars.
	www.balkans.eu.com (3652 words)

	Reference for Bulgarian language - Search.com
		Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from other Slavic languages, such as the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article (see Balkan linguistic union), the lack of a verb infinitive, and the retention and further development of the proto-Slavic verb system.
		It was influenced by proto-Bulgar and its non-Slavic neighbors in the Balkan linguistic union (mostly grammatically) and later also by Turkish, which was the official language of Ottoman empire, in the form of the Ottoman language (an earlier form of Turkish), mostly lexically.
		With accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on January 1, 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the EU.
	www.search.com /reference/Bulgarian_language (5540 words)

	Department of Computational Linguistics
		The general objective of the project Machine Translation Focused on Balkan Languages is to equip the information society with necessary linguistic and technological resources that will foster machine translation in order to promote cross-lingual communication, business, education and research, as well as cross-cultural integration.
		For the purposes of the project different kind of linguistic annotation will be involved on the raw texts – tokenization, part of speech tagging, lemmatization and stemming, sentence and word alignment.
		Our goal is to develop a reliable linguistic infrastructure containing multilingual language resources that can be further enlarged and successfully used for the developing of real life MT applications for the South Slavic and Balkan languages.
	dcl.bas.bg /mt_ss_bl_en.html (2063 words)

	Linguistic and Ethnic diversity
		In several mountainous areas the residual population, consisting of those who stayed in the villages after a majority of people moved to the cities, is now markedly bilingual.
		The timing of this emergence will depend from the pace of acceptance of the concept of multiculturalism by the mainstream of the Greek society, since all rich and/or influential Valachs are well integrated members of the Greek establishment.
		An impressive number of Greeks from the former Soviet Union have high school and even college education in Russian, while the Polish Immigrant Community in Greece is positively accepted.
	www.aegean.gr /culturaltec/dasc/Dasc_Pap2_lediv.htm (1370 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)