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", pirťa "path for sheep", kurnota "horned sheep", košár "fence for sheep", murgaňa/murgaša "dark-wooled sheep", putira/putyra "little", strunga/strunka "garden gate" 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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