DIALECTUL MEGLENOROMÂN

This presentation of South-Danubian Romanian dialect, Megleno-Romanian, spoken today in Dobrudja (Dobrogea), Romania, has a diachronic and synchronic approach. After a brief historical and contemporary description of this dialect, we emphasize the phonetic, morphologic and lexical elements, in the sense of strengthening Romance features in a Balkan context. The Megleno-Romanian dialect is spoken in the north of Greece, at the border with R. of North Macedonia and in one locality in the R. of North Macedonia. Historic circumstances led, during the two world wars, to the Islamised Megleno-Romanians of Nânta to be taken to European Turkey; during the same period, several hundreds of Megleno-Romanian families moved to Romania (in Dobrudja, Cerna). Today, the total number of Megleno-Romanians is close to 10,000.