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- Title
Subgroup or Substratum? An Examination of Proposed Pre-histories of the Albanian and Romanian Languages.
- Authors
YOUNG, HANNAH FRANCES
- Abstract
There have been various claims made regarding the evolution of Albanian and Romanian from the Proto-Indo-European language. Some linguists claim that they are two separate languages with distinct developments, while some propose that they are far more closely related, perhaps even forming a subgroup within the Indo-European family. Another claim is made that a substrate language influenced these two languages, which can explain some intriguing similarities between these languages. This essay investigates the claims made for and against the subgrouping of Romanian and Albanian and establishes whether or not there is sufficient linguistic evidence to claim that there is a language from which both descend, or if these two languages rather share a long history of contact and influence of a substratum language.
- Subjects
PROTO-Indo-European language; SUBSTRATUM (Linguistics); ALBANIAN language
- Publication
East-West Cultural Passage, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 1/2, p149
- ISSN
1583-6401
- Publication type
Article