Moravian Wallachian dialect

The Moravian Wallachian dialect is a Czech dialect spoken in the Czech Republic, influenced by standard Czech and Slovak, which includes Romanian words from Daco-Romanian such as bača "shepherd", brynza "cheese", domikát "type of dairy", grapa "steep mountain meadow", pirťa "path for sheep", kurnota "horned sheep", košár "fence for sheep", kozub "fireplace", kyrdel "flock", murgaňa/murgaša "dark-wooled sheep", putira/putyra "little", strunga/strunka "garden gate", watra "fire", or žinčica "sheep whey".[1]

Moravian Wallachian
RegionMoravian Wallachia
Language codes
ISO 639-3

For the above reasons Czech specialists hypothize that groups of Romanian shepherds from present-day Romania (Transylvania, Banat) or present-day eastern Serbia, settled in East Moravia at the latest in the 15th–17th centuries.[2]

References

  1. Exemple din Josef Fabián, Slovník nespisovného jazyka valaského („Dicționar al limbii nescrise a vlahilor”), Občanské sdružení Valašské Athény, Valašské Meziříčí, 2009 ISBN 80-239-7990-6 (accesat la 21 noiembrie 2013)
  2. Jan Pavelka, Jiří Trezner (dir.): Příroda Valašska, Vsetín 2001, ISBN 80-238-7892-1.
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