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The paper analyzes local Balkan phytonyms used for broom and spread on the territory from the Adriatic coast to Greece. In the past, broom was used for weaving and manufacturing rough textile. One can notice a strong influence of Romance (including Dalmatian) on the Serbo-Croatian plant names for broom (Lat. juncus, Ital. giunco, Venet. zunco). In the northern Albanian dialects, especially in the Albanian-Slavic contact areas, a great role was played by the borrowed Serbo-Croatian word žukа (and probably Venet. zunco as well). South of Northern Albanian Ghegnia – in the middle Gheg and Tosk territories – loan-words from diff erent times can be found: Lat. genista, genesta and Ital. ginestra. Further south, in the Albanian dialects of Labёria, in Greece and Italy (Arbёresh), there is a clear influence from the Greek σπάρτο. The research is based on long-term field observations (the fieldwork was conducted in 2009–2019), as well as on the previously published phytonomastical and ethnological data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents new ideas on the standardization of Romani, using diff erent Vlax dialects as a base. In cases where it is not possible to take lexical items from these dialects, lexical items from other non-Vlax Romani dialects or Indian languages are suggested instead, and are subsequently adapted to the Romani language. Additionally, examples are given of how neologisms could be created from internationally known words by following the grammatical rules of Romani. The paper also suggests a regional standardization of Romani for the Balkan Peninsula countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we will focus on some lexical features characteristic of the dialects spoken in the villages of Hloi (Greek Χλόη = Bulgarian Hebilevo/Хебилево) in the Greek region of Komotini (Κομοτηνή = Gyumyurdzhina/Гюмюрджина) and of the related dialects in the nearby village of Gorni Yurutsi (Горни Юруци) in the Bulgarian region of Krumovgrad. In particular, we will pay attention to isotopically significant terminology in the fields of health, healthcare, illness, and related phenomena. The local language variety spoken in both the Greek and the Bulgarian villages is clearly identified as a Bulgarian-based Rhodopean dialect, but the two villages deal with radically different conditions of language contact. In the first section, we will give a short overview of the problems of language contact in general. Then, in section two, we will focus on health terminology. We compare language materials collected on the two sides of the border, and discuss the impact of language contact in this area. Our conclusion is that contact-induced change is observed on both sides of the Bulgarian-Greek border, but it takes very different forms in Bulgaria and Greece due to quite different and very complex language influences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper offers a reinterpretation of a few phonetic changes, which mostly have been treated as simple adaptation processes whereas at least some of them reveal phonetic trends either in Bulgarian or in Turkish dialects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Makedonia was the name of a Balkan region since ancient times. The geographic region of Macedonia was always multilingual. Modern Slavic dialects in this region are part of the Bulgarian literary language, belonging to the south-east Slavic sub-group. The creation of an independent Bulgarian Church in 1870/1872 marked the end of Hellenism, which had attempted the creation of a language separate from Serbia and Bulgaria. On August 3rd 1944, "Macedonian" was declared as the official language of the Yugoslavian Socialist Republic of Macedonia. As a consequence of World War II, the Bulgarian language had more than one written codification, so one has to speak of a recodification in Macedonia and pluricentrism of Standard Bulgarian, a fact in Macedonia as well as the Aegean part of Greece, Banat and Ukraine. There is a list of Slavic researchers outside Bulgaria, who have published papers and books on this question, e.g. Gustav Weigand, Alfons Margulies and Norbert Reiter. Important research on the question of the so-called "Macedonian language" has also been conducted in Bulgaria and other European countries [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]