Aromanian language

Aromanian (rrãmãneshti, armãneashti, or armãneshce), also known as Macedo-Romanian or Vlach, is an Eastern Romance language, similar to Megleno-Romanian, or a dialect of the Romanian language[3] spoken in Southeastern Europe. Its speakers are called Aromanians or Vlachs (a broader term and an exonym in widespread use to define Romance communities in the Balkans).

Not to be confused with Armenian language, Romanian language, or Romani language.

Aromanian
rrãmãneshti, armãneashti, armãneashce
Native to	Greece, Albania, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey.
Ethnicity	Aromanians
Native speakers	estimated 250,000 (1997)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Eastern Romance Balkan Romance Aromanian
Early form	Proto-Romanian
Writing system	Latin (Aromanian alphabet)
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Albania  North Macedonia
Language codes
ISO 639-2	rup
ISO 639-3	rup
Glottolog	arom1237[2]
Linguasphere	51-AAD-ba

Dialects of Aromanian

Aromanian shares many features with modern Romanian, including similar morphology and syntax, as well as a large common vocabulary inherited from Latin. An important source of dissimilarity between Romanian and Aromanian is the adstratum languages (external influences); whereas Romanian has been influenced to a greater extent by the Slavic languages, Aromanian has been more influenced by Greek, with which it has been in close contact throughout its history.

Geographic distribution

The preponderant number of Aromanian speakers is found in Greece, with substantial numbers of speakers also found in Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia. The latter was the only country where Aromanians are officially recognized as a national minority, until October 2017 when Albania also officially recognized them.

Large Aromanian-speaking communities are also found in Romania, where some Aromanians migrated from Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Serbia, mainly after 1925. Aromanians may have settled in Turkey due to the influence of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. Today, there are a few Aromanians living in Turkey.

Official status

The Aromanian language has a degree of official status in North Macedonia, where Aromanian is taught as a subject in some primary schools. In North Macedonia, Aromanian speakers also have the right to use the language in court proceedings. Since 2006, the Aromanian language has been the second official municipal language in the city of Kruševo.[4]

History

Dictionary of four Balkan languages (Roman (Greek), Aromanian, Bulgarian and Albanian) by Daniel Moscopolites, an Aromanian from Moscopole, written c. 1770 and published c. 1794; republished in 1802 in Greek.[10][11][12][13][14]

The language is similar to Romanian; its greatest difference lies in the vocabulary. There are far fewer Slavic words (mostly Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbian) in Aromanian than in Romanian, and many more Greek words, a reflection of the close contact of Aromanian with Greek through much of its history. Loanwords of Greek origin were already present in Vulgar Latin, before the Roman Empire expanded into the Balkan region. Though there are fewer Slavic words, Aromanians are still surrounded by Slavic speakers in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Serbia, and Slavic loanwords are increasing.

It is generally considered that sometime between 800 and 1,200 years ago, Vulgar Latin spoken in the Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire, which is also known as Proto-Eastern Romance, broke up into four languages: Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian. One possibility for the origin of Aromanian is that in the same way standard Romanian is believed to be descended from the Latin spoken by the Getae (Dacians [Daco-Thracians] and Roman settlers in what is now Romania), Aromanian descended from the Latin spoken by Thracian and Illyrian peoples living in the southern Balkans (Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace).

Greek influences are much stronger in Aromanian than in other Eastern Romance languages, especially because Aromanian used Greek words to coin new words (neologisms), while Romanian based most of its neologisms on French.

With the arrival of the Turks in the Balkans, Aromanian also received some Turkish words. Still, the lexical composition remains mainly Romance.

Dialects

Aromanian has three main dialects, Fãrshãrot, Gramustean and Pindean

It has also several regional variants, named after places that were home to significant populations of Aromanians (Vlachs); nowadays located in Albania, North Macedonia and Greece. Examples are the Moscopole variant (from the Metropolis of Moscopole, also known as the "Aromanian Jerusalem"); the Muzachiar variant from Muzachia in central Albania; the variant of Bitola; Pilister, Malovište (Aromanian: Mulovishti), Gopeš (Aromanian: Gopish), Upper Beala; Gorna Belica (Aromanian: Beala di Suprã) near Struga, Krusevo (Aromanian: Crushuva), and the variant east of the Vardar river in North Macedonia.

An Aromanian dictionary currently under development can be found on wiktionary.

Phonology

Aromanian has differences from standard Romanian in its phonology, some of them probably due to influence from Greek or Albanian. It has spirants that do not exist in Romanian, such as /θ, ð, x, ɣ/. Other differences are the sounds /dz/ and /ts/, which correspond to Romanian /z/ and /tʃ/, and the sounds: /ʎ/, final /u/, and /ɲ/, which exist only in local dialects in Romanian. Aromanian is usually written with a version of the Latin script with an orthography that resembles both that of Albanian (in the use of digraphs such as dh, sh, and th) and Italian (in its use of c and g), along with the letter ã, used for the sounds represented in Romanian by ă and â/î. It can also be written with a modified Romanian alphabet that includes two additional letters, ń and ľ, and rarely with a version of the Greek script.

Consonants

			Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop		voiceless	p	t		c	k
		voiced	b	d		ɟ	ɡ
Affricate		voiceless		t͡s	t͡ʃ
		voiced		d͡z	d͡ʒ
Fricative	plain	voiceless	f	θ		[ç]	x	(h)
		voiced	v	ð		[ʝ]	ɣ
	sibiliant	voiceless		s	ʃ
		voiced		z	ʒ
Nasal			m	n		ɲ
Trill				r
Approximant		lateral		l		ʎ
		central				j	w

• Central approximant consonants only occur as a result of a word-initial or intervocalic [i] and [u] when preceding another vowel.
• /x/, /ɣ/ can have allophones as [ç], [ʝ] when preceding front vowels.
• /x/, /h/ are in free variation among different dialects.[15][16]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

• Two vowel sounds /ɨ, ə/ are both represented by one grapheme; ã.

Grammar

Aromanian grammar book, with the title in Greek (stated as "Roman") and German, 1813

The grammar and morphology are very similar to those of other Romance languages:

• It has two grammatical numbers: singular and plural (no dual).
• It is a null-subject language.
• Verbs have many conjugations, including:
  • A present tense, a preterite, an imperfect, a pluperfect and a future tense in the indicative mood, for statements of fact.
  • An imperative mood, for direct commands.
  • Three non-finite forms: infinitive, gerund, and past participle.
  • Distinct active and passive voices, as well as an impersonal passive voice.

The Aromanian language has some exceptions from the Romance languages, some of which are shared with Romanian: the definite article is a clitic particle appended at the end of the word, both the definite and indefinite articles can be inflected, and nouns are classified in three genders, with neuter in addition to masculine and feminine.

Verbs

Aromanian grammar has features that distinguish it from Romanian, an important one being the complete disappearance of verb infinitives, a feature of the Balkan sprachbund. As such, the tenses and moods that, in Romanian, use the infinitive (like the future simple tense and the conditional mood) are formed in other ways in Aromanian. For the same reason, verb entries in dictionaries are given in their indicative mood, present tense, first-person-singular form.

Aromanian verbs are classified in four conjugations. The table below gives some examples and indicates the conjugation of the corresponding verbs in Romanian.[17]

Conjugation	Aromanian (ind. pres. 1st sg.)	Romanian (ind. pres. 1st sg.)	Romanian (infinitive)	English
I	cãntu dau lucredzu	cânt dau lucrez	a cânta I a da I a lucra I	sing give work
II	ved shed rrãmãn	văd șed rămân	a vedea II a ședea II a rămâne III (or a rămânea II)	see sit stay
III	duc cunoscu ardu	duc cunosc ard	a duce III a cunoaște III a arde III	carry, lead know burn
IV	mor fug ndultsescu	mor fug îndulcesc	a muri IV a fugi IV a îndulci IV	die run away, flee sweeten

Future tense

The future tense is formed using an auxiliary invariable particle "u" or "va" and the subjunctive mood.

Aromanian fãrshãrot/ grãmushtean	Romanian (archaic)	Romanian (colloquial)	Romanian (modern)	English
u s'cãntu/ va s'cãntu	va să cânt	o să cânt	voi cânta	I will sing
u s'cãnts/ va s'cãnts	va să cânți	o să cânți	vei cânta	you (sg.) will sing
u s'cãntã/ va s'cãntã	va să cânte	o să cânte	va cânta	(s)he will sing
u s'cãntãm/ va s'cãntãm	va să cântăm	o să cântăm	vom cânta	we will sing
u s'cãntatsi/ va s'cãntats	va să cântați	o să cântați	veți cânta	you (pl.) will sing
u s'cãntã/ va s'cãntã	va să cânte	o să cânte	vor cânta	they will sing

Pluperfect

Whereas in Romanian the pluperfect (past perfect) is formed synthetically (as in literary Portuguese), Aromanian uses a periphrastic construction with the auxiliary verb am (have) as the imperfect (aviam) and the past participle, as in Spanish and French, except that French replaces avoir (have) with être (be) for some intransitive verbs. Aromanian shares this feature with Meglenian as well as other languages in the Balkan language area.

Only the auxiliary verb inflects according to number and person (aviam, aviai, avia, aviamu, aviatu, avia), whereas the past participle does not change.[18]

Aromanian fãrshãrot/ grãmushtean	Meglenian	Romanian	English
avia mãcatã/ avea mãcatã	vea mancat	mâncase	(he/she) had eaten
avia durnjitã/ avea durnjitã	vea durmit	dormise	(he/she) had slept

Gerund

The Aromanian gerund is applied to some verbs, but not all. These verbs are:

• 1st conjugation: acatsã (acãtsãnda(lui)), portu, lucreashce, adiljeashce.
• 2nd conjugation: armãnã, cade, poate, tatse, veade.
• 3rd conjugation: arupã, dipune, dutse, dzãse, featse, tradze, scrie.
• 4th conjugation: apire, doarme, hivrie, aure, pate, avde.

Situation in Greece

Romanian Schools for Aromanians and Meglenoromanians in the Ottoman Empire (1886)

Use of the Aromanian language in the Florina Prefecture

Even before the incorporation of various Aromanian-speaking territories into the Greek state (1832, 1912), the language was subordinated to Greek, traditionally the language of education and religion in Constantinople and other prosperous urban cities. The historical studies cited below (mostly Capidan) show that especially after the fall of Moscopole (1788) the process of Hellenisation via education and religion gained a strong impetus mostly among people doing business in the cities.

The Romanian state began opening schools for the Romanian-influenced Vlachs in the 1860s, but this initiative was regarded with suspicion by the Greeks, who thought that Romania was trying to assimilate them. 19th-century travellers in the Balkans such as W. M. Leake and Henry Fanshawe Tozer noted that Vlachs in the Pindus and Macedonia were bilingual, reserving the Latin dialect for inside the home.[19]

By 1948, the new Soviet-imposed communist regime of Romania had closed all Romanian-run schools outside Romania and, since the closure, there has been no formal education in Aromanian and speakers have been encouraged to learn and use the Greek language. This has been a process encouraged by the community itself and is not an explicit State policy. The decline and isolation of the Romanian orientated groups was not helped by the fact that they openly collaborated with the Axis powers of Italy and Germany during the occupation of Greece in WWII. Notably, the vast majority of Vlachs fought in the Greek resistance and a number of their villages were destroyed by the Germans.

The issue of Aromanian-language education is a sensitive one, partly because of the resurgence in Romanian interest on the subject. Romanian nationalism maintains that Greek propaganda is still very strong in the area, inferring that Greeks define Aromanians as a sort of "Latinized Greeks". The fact remains that it is the majority of Greek Vlachs themselves that oppose the Romanian propaganda (those that supported it having emigrated in the early 20th century to other countries), as they have done for the past 200 years. Most Greek Vlachs oppose the introduction of the language into the education system as EU and leading Greek political figures have suggested, viewing it as an artificial distinction between them and other Greeks. For example, the former education minister, George Papandreou, received a negative response from Greek-Aromanian mayors and associations to his proposal for a trial Aromanian language education programme. The Panhellenic Federation of Cultural Associations of Vlachs (Πανελλήνια Ομοσπονδία Πολιτιστικών Συλλόγων Βλάχων) expressed strong opposition to EU's recommendation in 1997 that the tuition of Aromanian be supported so as to avoid its extinction.[20] On a visit to Metsovo, Epirus in 1998, Greek President Konstantinos Stephanopoulos called on Vlachs to speak and teach their language, but its decline continues.

A recent example of the sensitivity of the issue was the 2001 conviction (later overturned in the Appeals Court) to 15 months in jail of Sotiris Bletsas,[21][22] a Greek Aromanian who was found guilty of "dissemination of false information" after he distributed informative material on minority languages in Europe (which included information on minority languages of Greece), produced by the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages and financed by the European Commission. His conviction met with broad condemnation in Greece, where at least editorial compared the situation to the suppression of Kurdish and other minority languages in Turkey and noted the irony that some prosecutors in fact came from non-Hellenophone families that had once spoken Aromanian or Turkish.[23] Bletsas was eventually acquitted.[24]

Language sample

Fãrshãrot

Tatã a nostu tsi eshti tu tser,

si ayisiascã numa a Ta,

s’yinã amirãria a Ta,

si facã vrearea a Ta,

cum tu tser, ashe sh'pisti loc.

Pãna a nostã, atsa di cathi dzuã, dãniu sh’azã,

sh‘ yartãni amartiili a nosti,

ashe cum li yãrtem sh’noi a amãrtor a noci,

sh’nu ni du la pirazmo,

ma viagljãni di atsel rãu.

Cã a Ta esti amirãria sh'puteria,

a Tatãlui shi Hiljalui shi a Ayiului Spirit,

tora, totãna sh’tu eta a etillor.

Amin.

Grãmushtean

Tatã a nostu, tsi eshtsã tu tseru,

s'ayiseascã numa a Ta,

s'yinã amirãriljea a Ta,

si facã vrearea a Ta,

cumu tu tseru, ashi sh'pisti locu.

Pãnea a nostã atsea di cathi dzuã dãnãu sh'adzã

sh'yiartãnã amãrtiile a noasti

ashi cum ilj yirtãmu sh'noi a amãrtoshloru a noshtsa.

Sh'nu nã du tu pirazmo,

Sh'aveagljinã di atsel arãulu.

Cã a Ta easti Amirãrijia sh'putearea

a Tatãlui shi Hillui sh a Ayiului Duhu,

tora, totãna sh tu eta a etilor.

Amen.

(The Lord's Prayer – source)

Tuti iatsãli umineshtsã s'fac liberi shi egali la nãmuzea shi ndrepturli. Eali suntu hãrziti cu fichiri shi sinidisi shi lipseashti un cu alantu sh si poartã tu duhlu a frãtsãljiljei.

(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), translated by Dina Cuvata

Comparison with Romanian

The following text is given for comparison in Aromanian and in Romanian, with an English translation. The spelling of Aromanian is that decided at the Bitola Symposium of August 1997. The word choice in the Romanian version was such that it matches the Aromanian text, although in modern Romanian other words might have been more appropriate. The English translation is only provided as a guide to the meaning, with an attempt to keep the word order as close to the original as possible.

Aromanian	Romanian	English
Vocala easti unã son dit zburãrea a omlui, faptu cu tritsearea sonorã, libirã sh'fãrã cheadicã, a vimtului prit canalu sonor (adrat di coardili vocali shi ntreaga gurã) icã un semnu grafic cari aspuni un ahtari son.	Vocala este un sunet din vorbirea omului, făcut cu trecerea sonoră, liberă și fără piedică, a aerului prin canalul sonor (compus din coardele vocale și întreaga gură) sau un semn grafic care reprezintă un atare sunet.	The vowel is a sound in human speech, made by the sonorous, free and unhindered passing of the air through the sound channel (composed of the vocal cords and the whole mouth) or a graphic symbol corresponding to that sound.
Ashi bunãoarã, avem shasili vocali tsi s'fac cu vimtul tsi treatsi prit gurã, iu limba poati si s'aflã tu un loc icã altu shi budzãli pot si sta dishcljisi unã soe icã altã.	Astfel, avem șase vocale ce se fac cu aerul ce trece prin gură, unde limba poate să se afle într-un loc sau altul și buzele pot să stea deschise într-un soi sau altul.	This way, we have six vowels that are produced by the air passing through the mouth, where the tongue can be in one place or another and the lips can be opened in one way or another.
Vocalili pot s'hibã pronuntsati singuri icã deadun cu semivocali i consoani.	Vocalele pot să fie pronunțate singure sau împreună cu semivocale sau consoane.	The vowels can be pronounced alone or together with semivowels or consonants.

Common words and phrases

English	Aromanian
Aromanian (person)	(m.) rrãmãn/ armãn, (f.) rrãmãnã/ armãnã
Aromanian (language)	limba rrãmãniascã; rrãmãneshti/ armãneashti/ armãneashce
Good day!	Bunã dzua!
What's your name?	Cumu ti chiamã? (informal)
How old are you?	Di cãtsi anji esht?
How are you?	Cumu hits? (formal) Cumu eshti?/ Cumu eshci? (informal)
What are you doing?	Tsi fats?/ Tsi adari? (popular)
Goodbye!	S'nã videmu cu ghine!/ Ghini s'ni videmu!
Bye!	S'nã avdzãmu ghiniatsa!
Please.	Vã plãcãrsescu. (formal) Ti plãcãrsescu. (informal)
Sorry.	S'mi hãrdzesht.
Thank you.	Haristo.
Yes.	Ye.
No.	Nu.
I don't understand.	Nu aduchest/ Nu achicãsescu.
Where's the bathroom?	Yu esti toaletlu?/ Yu easte tualetu?
Do you speak English?	Zburats/ Grits anglichiashti?/ anglicheashce?
I am a student.	Mini esti un studentu/ Mine escu un student.
You are beautiful.	Eshti mushat(ã)/ Eshci mushat(ã)/ Hi mushat(ã).

See also

• Eastern Romance substratum
• Illyro-Roman
• Latin-Greek connection
• Legacy of the Roman Empire
• Romance languages
• Thraco-Roman
• The Balkan language area

References

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Footnotes

1. Council of Europe Parliamentary Recommendation 1333 on the Aromanian culture and language (1997)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Aromanian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Romanian language – Britannica Online Encyclopedia
4. Aromanians Archived March 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
5. Multiculturalism, alteritate, istoricitate «Multiculturalism, Historicity and “The image of the Other”» by Alexandru Niculescu, Literary Romania (România literară), issue: 32 / 2002, pages: 22,23,
6. Angeliki Konstantakopoulou, Η ελληνική γλώσσα στα Βαλκάνια 1750–1850. Το τετράγλωσσο λεξικό του Δανιήλ Μοσχοπολίτη [The Greek language in the Balkans 1750–1850. The dictionary in four languages of Daniel Moschopolite]. Ioannina 1988, 11.
7. Peyfuss, Max Demeter: Die Druckerei von Moschopolis, 1731–1769. Buchdruck und Heiligenverehrung im Erzbistum Achrida. Wien – Köln 1989. (= Wiener Archiv f. Geschichte des Slawentums u. Osteuropas. 13), ISBN 3-205-98571-0.
8. Kahl, Thede: Wurde in Moschopolis auch Bulgarisch gesprochen? In: Probleme de filologie slavă XV, Editura Universității de Vest, Timişoara 2007, S. 484–494, ISSN 1453-763X.
9. "The Bulgarian National Awakening and its Spread into Macedonia", by Antonios-Aimilios Tachiaos, pp. 21–23, published by Thessaloniki's Society for Macedonian Studies, 1990.
10. Multiculturalism, alteritate, istoricitate «Multiculturalism, Historicity and “The image of the Other”» by Alexandru Niculescu, Literary Romania (România literară), issue: 32 / 2002, pages: 22,23,
11. Angeliki Konstantakopoulou, Η ελληνική γλώσσα στα Βαλκάνια 1750–1850. Το τετράγλωσσο λεξικό του Δανιήλ Μοσχοπολίτη [The Greek language in the Balkans 1750–1850. The dictionary in four languages of Daniel Moschopolite]. Ioannina 1988, 11.
12. Peyfuss, Max Demeter: Die Druckerei von Moschopolis, 1731–1769. Buchdruck und Heiligenverehrung im Erzbistum Achrida. Wien – Köln 1989. (= Wiener Archiv f. Geschichte des Slawentums u. Osteuropas. 13), ISBN 3-205-98571-0.
13. Kahl, Thede: Wurde in Moschopolis auch Bulgarisch gesprochen? In: Probleme de filologie slavă XV, Editura Universității de Vest, Timişoara 2007, S. 484–494, ISSN 1453-763X.
14. "The Bulgarian National Awakening and its Spread into Macedonia", by Antonios-Aimilios Tachiaos, pp. 21–23, published by Thessaloniki's Society for Macedonian Studies, 1990.
15. Béis, Stamatis (2000). Le parler aroumain de Metsovo : Déscription d’une langue en voie de disparition. Université Paris.
16. Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda (1997). Dicționar aromân (Macedo-vlah). Bucarest: Bucarest, Editura Enciclopedică. pp. xxviii–xxxvii.
17. Iancu Ianachieschi-Vlahu Gramatica armãneascã simplã shi practicã, Crushuva 1993, 1997; Μιχάλη Μπογιάτζη Βλαχική ήτοι μάκεδοβλαχική γραμματική Βιέννη, and Κατσάνης Ν., Κ. Ντίνας, 1990, Γραμματική της κοινής Κουτσοβλαχικής.
18. Iancu Ianachieschi-Vlahu Gramatica simplã shi practicã, Crushuva 1993, 1997.
19. Weigand, in his 1888 Die Sprache der Olympo-Wallachen, nebst einer Einleitung über Land und Leute remarks: "By inclination, the Livadhiotes are zealous advocates of Greek ideas and would much prefer to be unified with Greece" (p.15).
20. "ΠΟΠΣΒ -ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΙΚΟ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟ". 18 March 2004. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014.
21. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2007-01-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
22. "15-month prison sentence handed down to Mr Sotiris Bletsas for distributing information material financed by the Commission". European Parliament. 8 January 2002. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
23. "Διασπορά αληθινών ειδήσεων". February 10, 2001. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
24. Johan Haggman (18 December 2001). "Minority Language Activist, Bletsas Found Not Guilty in Historic Court Decision". Archived from the original on 30 November 2007.

External links

• "Dictionary in Aromanian Language".
• Aromanian Language website
• Στα Βλάχικα – In Vlach: A website about the Vlach language in Greece
• Aromanian Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words (from Wiktionary's Swadesh list appendix)
• Aromanian basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
• Asterios Koukoudis: Studies on the Vlachs
• Greek Helsinki Human Rights Organization: Aromanians (Vlachs) in Greece
• Conjugation of verbs in Aromanian and Istro-Romanian
• Romanian and the Balkans, with some references to Aromanian
• Greek Vlach website
• Consiliul A Tinirlor Armanj – CTARM, webpage about Youth Aromanians and their projects
• Armans Association from Serbia
• Armans Cultural Association from Romania
• Η βλαχική γλώσσα στο γλώσσες και αλφάβητα του κόσμου