Most of Moldova was part of Romania during the interwar period ( 1918 – 40 ) and linguists generally agree that the Moldovan language is in fact identical with Romanian.

After political debate over the issue became inflamed again in the early 2000s, a group of Romanian linguists adopted a resolution stating that promotion of the notion of Moldovan language is an anti-scientific campaign.

The Vlachs, who would develop into the modern Romanian ethnicity, did not become identifiable before the High Middle Ages in Kedrenos ( 11th century ), and their prehistory during the Migration period is a matter of scholarly speculation but according to the linguists and to many scholars, the existence of the present Eastern Romance languages proves the survival of the Thraco-Romans in the low-Danube basin during the Migration period and the Vlachs are all being well considered descendants of Romanised peoples of the area ( incl.

It is believed that they diverged from the Romanians in the 7th to 9th century, and currently speak the Aromanian language and Megleno-Romanian language, both of which are Eastern Romance languages, like Romanian, and are sometimes considered by traditional Romanian linguists to be dialects of Romanian.

The current Dicţionar explicativ ( the DEX ) published by the Romanian Academy continues to list many words as borrowings, though the work of other linguists ( Sorin Olteanu, Sorin Paliga, Ivan Duridanov, et al.

Many linguists however favor a Dacian source for the Romanian substratum.

Category: Romanian linguists

Category: Romanian linguists

Romanian linguists consider that the actual toponym Hârşova ( Harsova ) has its origins in the old variant Carsium, which has normally changed phonetically in time during language evolution ( c-h, a-i-î ( â ), r = r, s-ş ).

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Another might be the retention of the neuter gender in nouns, although in synchronic terms, Romanian neuter nouns can also be analysed as " ambigeneric ", i. e. as being masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural ( see below ) and even in diachronic terms certain linguists have argued that this pattern was in a sense " re-invented " rather than a " direct " continuation of the Latin neuter.

Megleno-Romanian ( known as Vlăheşte by speakers and Megleno-Romanian, Moglenitic or Meglenitic by linguists ) is a Romance language, similar to Aromanian and Romanian, or a dialect of the Romanian language.

Some linguists consider it to be an intermediary between Romanian and Aromanian, often being considered either a dialect of Romanian, a dialect of Aromanian, or an independent language.

The term " Megleno-Romanian " has been used by linguists who noticed the similarity to the Romanian language.

The language appears to have some Indo-European traits, but it has nothing in common with what linguists expect to be Dacian language, as no correlation with the Romanian language substrate can be found.

Tzolk ' in ( from the revised Guatemala Mayan languages Academy orthography, which is preferred by the linguists of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, formerly and commonly tzolkin ) is the name bestowed by Mayanists on the 260-day Mesoamerican calendar used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

The Accademia della Crusca ( Academy of the bran ) is an Italian society for scholars and Italian linguists and philologists established in Florence.

The US state of Illinois declared " American " to be the state's official language in 1923, although linguists and politicians throughout much of the rest of the country considered American simply to be a dialect.

Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant.

Some historical linguists presume that all languages go back to a single common ancestor.

Not all linguists are convinced by the rejection of Greenberg's classification.

According to several linguists, neurocognitive research has confirmed many standards of language learning, such as: " learning engages the entire person ( cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains ), the human brain seeks patterns in its searching for meaning, emotions affect all aspects of learning, retention and recall, past experience always affects new learning, the brain's working memory has a limited capacity, lecture usually results in the lowest degree of retention, rehearsal is essential for retention, practice does not make perfect, and each brain is unique " ( Sousa, 2006, p. 274 ).

A principal source for the items in Illich-Svitych ’ s dictionary was the earlier work of Alfredo Trombetti ( 1866 – 1929 ), an Italian linguist who had developed a classification scheme for all the world ’ s languages, widely reviled at the time and subsequently ignored by almost all linguists.

Modern linguists use the word " germanic " to refer to people speaking Germanic languages and it is possible that all or part of the Belgae were Germanic in this sense.

Old Church Slavonic is valuable to historical linguists since it preserves archaic features believed to have once been common to all Slavic languages.

Increasingly, however, it became the ambition of linguists to formulate general and exceptionless rules of sound change that would account for all the data ( or as close to all the data as possible ), not merely for a well-behaved subset of it ( see Neogrammarians ).

Because of the sociohistoric similarities amongst many ( but by no means all ) of the creoles, the Atlantic slave trade and the plantation system of the European colonies have been emphasized as factors by linguists such as.

A number of philosophers and linguists claim that all definitions of a proposition are too vague to be useful.

: The Danish scholar Vilhelm Thomsen ( 1842-1927 ) was one of the greatest linguists of all times.

Like all other Polynesian languages, Tuvaluan descends from an ancestral language, which historical linguists refer to as " Proto-Polynesian ", which was spoken perhaps about 2, 000 years ago.

In an interview on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, Dr. McWhorter characterized AAVE as a " hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects ..." According to Dr. McWhorter, virtually all linguists who have carefully studied the origins of AAVE " agree that the West African connection is quite minor.

Mainland Southeast Asia ( MSEA ) is one of the most dramatic of linguistic areas in terms of the surface similarity of the languages involved, to the extent that early linguists tended to group them all into a single family, although the modern consensus places them into numerous unrelated families.

Many languages throughout North America are polysynthetic ( Eskimo – Aleut languages are extreme examples ), although this is not characteristic of all North American languages ( contrary to what was believed by 19th-century linguists ).

Historical linguists are uncertain whether the augment is a feature that was added to these branches of Indo-European, or whether the augment was present in the parent language and lost by all other branches ( see also Proto-Greek ).

One debate among 20th-century linguists revolved around the question of whether small children learn all verb forms as separate pieces of vocabulary or whether they deduce forms by the application of rules.

Some linguists use the word " preposition " instead of " adposition " for all three cases.

Some linguists name the branch " the Luwian Group " or just " Luwian ," and in that sense Luwian means all the Luwian languages.

Filipino linguists consider the dialect of Coastal Bikol called Bikol Central spoken around Naga City as the standard Bikol easily understood by all Bicolanos.

Most of the scholars that specialize in the field of mythological studies and Slavic linguistics ( such as Boris Rybakov, Andrey Zaliznyak, Leo Klein and all Russian academic historians and linguists ) consider it a forgery.

His band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, was one of the most popular, hard-rocking bar bands in east New Jersey ( Buckaroo plays electric guitar and pocket trumpet ), though its members ( bearing names like Rawhide, Reno, the Swede, Perfect Tommy, Big Norse, and Pecos Bill ) were not professional musicians at all, but rather cartographers and botanists, linguists and propellant engineers, an entomologist and an epidemiologist.

Since the time of Pāṇini, at least, linguists have described the grammars of languages in terms of their block structure, and described how sentences are recursively built up from smaller phrases, and eventually individual words or word elements.

When linguists study the lexicon, they consider such things as what constitutes a word ; the word-concept relationship ; lexical access and lexical access failure ; how a word's phonology, syntax, and meaning intersect ; the morphology-word relationship ; vocabulary structure within a given language ; language use ( that is, pragmatics ); language acquisition ; the history and evolution of words ( i. e. etymology ); and the relationships between words, often studied within philosophy of language.

As syntax began to be studied more closely in the early 20th century, in relation to language learning, it became apparent to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers that knowing a language was not merely a matter of associating words with concepts, but that a critical aspect of language involves knowledge of how to put words together — sentences are usually needed in order to communicate successfully, not just isolated words.

In this context, linguists today use jargon to denote a particularly rudimentary type of pidgin ; however, this usage is rather rare, and the term jargon most often refers to the words particular to a given profession.

However even corpus linguists who work with ' unannotated plain text ' inevitably apply some method to isolate terms that they are interested in from surrounding words.

Although these are the traditional eight English parts of speech, modern linguists have been able to classify English words into even more specific categories and sub-categories based on function.

While many linguists maintain a distinction between measure words and numeral classifiers, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

For simplicity, adopt / adoption or adapt / adaption are used by many linguists, either in parallel to, or in preference to, these words.

However, these words are not reflected in modern linguists ' knowledge of the Gunai language, where, for example, the word for river is wun wun or wurn wurn.

While, from a linguistic prescriptivist perspective, any dictionary might be believed to dictate correct usage, linguists recognize that looking up words in dictionaries is not itself a rule-following practice independent of the give-and-take of using words in context.

Some linguists make a distinction between colloquialisms and " slangisms " ( slang words ).

What forms the different sounds and allows people to create different words is though the different position's of the mouth ( or as linguists call it " the oral cavity ".

Studies of language change, especially glottochronology ( that is, words changing in form or being replaced by borrowed synonyms ), have given linguists the tools to estimate the point in time when many pairs of languages diverged from their common ancestral tongue.

Some linguists consider the pro-sentences yes, no, amen and okay as interjections, since they have no syntactical connection with other words and rather work as sentences themselves.

The books carried a number of words that are considered loaded names by linguists and translators, meaning that they carry a semantic load, and that their morphology ( structure ) and phonology ( sound ) need to be adapted when translating them to a foreign language, for example the house names ( Ravenclaw = raven + claw ), or Voldemort's name (" flight of death " or " theft of death " in French ).

Although the words dialect and accent are sometimes used interchangeably in everyday speech, linguists and scholars define the two terms differently.

However, professional linguists and historians, particularly the specialists in ancient Slavic, question many features of its language — vocabulary ( modern or medieval Slavic words occasionally and unwittingly used in place of their ancient equivalents ), spelling, phonetics ( distinct reflections of the nasal vowels, both following Polish and Serbian patterns in different places, the haphazard handling of reduced vowels, etc., etc.

In a session regarding the issue of the usage for foreign words in Croatian language, as well on the problems of ongoing projects of coining Slavic replacements for established technical terms by combined efforts of linguists and specialists, the central body for the standardisation of Croatian language — the Council for Standard Croatian Language Norm — presents the historical overview of the issue as follows:

Ironically: the same people who were, for decades, stigmatised as ultra-Croatian " linguistic nationalists " ( Stjepan Babić, Dalibor Brozović, Radoslav Katičić, Miro Kačić ) have been accused as pro-Serbian " political linguists " simply because they opposed these " language purges " that wanted to kick out numerous words of Church Slavonic origin ( which are common not only to Croatian and Serbian, but are also present in Polish, Russian, Czech and other Slavic languages ).