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  1. Balkan sprachbund

    Sprachbund among the languages of the Balkans from the Slavic, Hellenic, Romance, Albanian, Indo-Aryan and Turkic language families

    The Balkan sprachbund or Balkan language area is an ensemble of areal features—similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology—among the languages of the Balkans. Several features are found across these languages though not all apply to every single language. The Balkan sprachbund is a prominent example of the sprachbund concept. The languages of the Balkan sprachbund share their similarities despite belonging to various separate language family branches. The Slavic, Hellenic, Romance, Albanian and Indo-Aryan branches all belong to the large Indo-European family, and the Turkish language is non-Indo-European. Some of the languages use these features for their standard language whilst other populations to whom the land is not a cultural pivot may still adopt the features for their local register. Wikipedia

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    The Balkan sprachbund or Balkan language area is an ensemble of areal features—similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology—among the languages of the Balkans.Several features are found across these languages though not all apply to every single language. The Balkan sprachbund is a prominent example of the sprachbund concept.. The languages of the Balkan sprachbund share their ...
    • Sprachbund

      The Balkan Sprachbund comprises Albanian, Romanian, the South Slavic languages of the southern Balkans (Bulgarian, Macedonian and to a lesser degree Serbo-Croatian), Greek, Balkan Turkish, and Romani. All but one of these are Indo-European languages but from very divergent branches, and Turkish is a Turkic language.

  3. en.wikipedia.org

    The Balkan Sprachbund comprises Albanian, Romanian, the South Slavic languages of the southern Balkans (Bulgarian, Macedonian and to a lesser degree Serbo-Croatian), Greek, Balkan Turkish, and Romani. All but one of these are Indo-European languages but from very divergent branches, and Turkish is a Turkic language.
  4. link.springer.com

    This chapter introduces the concept of the Balkan Sprachbund, a group of languages that share typological features despite their genetic diversity. It traces the origins and developments of the term, the criteria and the classification of the Balkan languages, and the role of dialects and language contacts.
  5. bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com

    ABSTRACT: The Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe is home to a number of languages whose interrelationships present various elements of interest for questions of sociolinguistics, language change, language contact, and areal linguistics. The Balkans are the area for which the term "sprachbund" was invented, and with good reason.
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  7. bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com

    the Balkan languages as a "Sprachbund" (also: "linguistic league" or "linguistic area"). The recognition of this fact, first noted as early as 1884 by Franz Miklosich, but systematically elaborated on in the classic 1926 work of Kristian Sandfeld (more widely known in its 1930
  8. The Balkan sprachbund is thus not a case of 'all or nothing' (pace Stolz, 2006) but rather a descriptor of a group of convergent languages resulting from centuries of sustained, intense and intimate multi-lateral, multi-directional, mutual multilingualism, described by Friedman and Joseph (2017) as their '4-M' model. ...
  9. oxfordbibliographies.com

    Moreover, because the results of language contact make the Balkans as a geographic region interesting as a linguistic area, the focus here will be on works treating the Balkan languages in their areal context. For the South Slavic dialect continuum, some are considered as participating in the Balkan Sprachbund while others are not.
  10. oxfordre.com

    The Balkan languages are thus the oldest example of a well-documented and still living Sprachbund.The primary questions that Balkan linguistics seeks to answer are these: What are the results of language contact in the Balkan languages, and how did they come about? The Balkan languages are traditionally defined as Albanian, Modern Greek, Balkan ...
  11. annualreviews.org

    The Balkans were the first linguistic area (sprachbund) to be identified as such. The concept was originally proposed to explain diffusion among languages that were genealogically unrelated or distantly related in terms of normal linguistic change as opposed to notions of corruption and impurity. The fact that the sprachbund cannot be as neatly bounded as the traditional language family has ...
  12. The best known and most discussed application of the concept of "Sprachbund", of course, is the "Balkan-Sprachbund" comprising the majority of South-East European languages, as there are Bulgarian including Macedonian, Serbian and Bosnian, Rumanian with its different representatives in the Balkans, also Albanian and Modern Greek.
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