From the Editor: Something Old, Something New
We planned this issue of our Newsletter as a scholars’ forum on the Aromanian language. Though we’ve carried articles by scholars before, we haven’t had an issue solely dedicated to their work. We are delighted to be able to present articles by two well-known and highly respected scholars: Kostas Kazazis and Victor Friedman of the …
Community News
We are pleased to welcome the following new members: Dennis Adams Beaufort, SC Evgenija Colakovski Middle Village, NY Kenneth A. Bicki Belmont, NC James A. Bicki Matthews, NC Virginia T. Bicki Ormond Beach, FL Peter A. Vanghel Thompson, CT Petrica Dragati Worcester, MA Virginia R. Rockas W.Simsbury, CT We announce with great sadness the passing …
Attention All Members: Attack on Our Cultural & Spiritual Monuments in Albania
The Albanian newspaper Zeri I Popullit reported on August 28 that large parts of Voskopoja’s 18th-century Saint Michael Church had been destroyed by vandals. The culprits — reportedly Muslim pupils, possibly encouraged by their teachers — destroyed 23 frescoes, 15 of them completely. Police found inscriptions such as “Allah Is Great” on the walls. Three teen-agers were …
The Vanishing Nomads
In mid-spring, empty hillsides in the Greek-Albanian border region come alive to the sound of sheep and goat’s bells as the Vlachs, Europe’s last semi-nomadic pastoralists, bring their large flocks up from the plains. The returning Vlachs create a buzz of activity in their remote, isolated villages, which are largely uninhabited in the long winter. …
Did You Know What Others Have to Say about Us?
The Lippovans, about whom so little has been written and whose history it is next to impossible to discover, are to be found along the coast of the Dobrudja, that province of Roumania which touches the Black Sea. The Dobrudja was Turkish until the Treaty of Berlin, in 1878; and even in the southern part …
Some Recent Greek Views on Aromanian
I am rather proud to give this paper, since by so doing I am breaking my own quite respectable personal record in scholarly charlatanism. I thought that presenting yet another collection of controversial musings on Greek diglossia was hardly the way to honor Zbigniew Gołąb. Thus, although I know little about Aromanian, it seemed to …
A Newly Discovered Grammatical Form In The Aromanian Dialect of Beala De Sus
It is well known that the Aromanian language is of great antiquity in the Balkans and played an active role in the formation of the so-called Balkan linguistic league. The Balkan linguistic league, which is traditionally described as consisting of Albanian, Aromanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Romanian and the southern dialects of Serbian, is characterized by …