Dear TA Romanians, How Does the Romance Spoken Below Sound to You?

[Duke]

How about this?



What i am hearing, they are mixing it with slavic a lot, so i guess it will be harder

[Nurzat]

the Romanian bits are maybe half of it and they sound like Banat accent in a way, not as archaic as Aromanians, also what is obvious is this guy doesn't speak it properly, he tries hard and throws the words he knows but replaces all the rest with I assume Croat. those two languages he mixes are not reconciled like in natural speech, so it is obvious this is not a spoken language (the resulting mix). well, interesting nevertheless

[dviz]

How about this?



What i am hearing, they are mixing it with slavic a lot, so i guess it will be harder

I am not sure the young guy is fluent. As a Romanian, I can understand a little more from what the old woman is saying, but it's hard to tell whether the amount of Slavic words they use is due to the fact they're bilingual or because those Slavic words were indeed part of the Istro-Romanian vocabulary, let's say, 100 years ago. In any case, it's even less intelligible than Aromanian to Romanians.

At this point, among Balkan Romance languages, I think only Romanian and Aromanian have enough speakers to really know how they sounds like.

[Varda]

some bits are just as Romanian, with the difference that they are pronounced in a Greek fashion (фудзя instead of фуджа for example), other bits are harder to understand but overall it's still instantly recognizable as Aromanian, despite his paeticular speaking, with the unrolled R for example), and you have to know what some archaic words mean, like пикурарь for shepherd, фята for girl, диту for from etc

Thanks.

I suppose this is like standard Romanian language?

[Nurzat]

Thanks.

I suppose this is like standard Romanian language?

hahahha that is exactly the Banat accent, in Romania it's only spoken in the countryside Banat and in "popular" music, as Romanians call their blend of folklore and orchestra. but it is 100% understandable for all Romanians, actually Romanian dialects are only differing in accent, except for Moldovan which has an abundance of Ruthenian and Csango words (slightly transformed though)

[Varda]

hahahha that is exactly the Banat accent, in Romania it's only spoken in the countryside Banat and in "popular" music, as Romanians call their blend of folklore and orchestra. but it is 100% understandable for all Romanians, actually Romanian dialects are only differing in accent, except for Moldovan which has an abundance of Ruthenian and Csango words (slightly transformed though)

On the video that i posted in previous post are Vlachs from eastern Serbia. On the car licence plates is ZA, it means Zaječar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaječar
Vlachs from that part of Serbia originated from Oltenia and eastern Banat, they settled from there 300 years ago. Name of female singer is Valentina Munćanović. Her surname came from Munćani (Munteani), that is one branch of eastern Serbian Vlachs with roots from eastern (mountain) part of Banat https://youtu.be/PcZpRCxtO5Y

Serbian Vlachs have many funny songs.

[Tommie]

Serbian Vlachs have many funny songs.

Ahahaha

[coolfrenchguy]

I refer to the senior gentleman:

far from french ,french is more construct than that ,some tiny latin similarities but very far from french

Français

	Roumain	Prononciation standard	Mot français de même origine	Mot latin correspondant	Mot italien
corps	corp	[korp]	corps	corpus	corpo
roman	roman	[ro'man]	roman	romanorum	romanzo
pays	țară	['tsa.rə]	terre	terra	terra
terre	pământ	[pə'mɨnt]	pavé	pavimentum	pavimento
ciel	cer	[tʃer]	ciel	caelum	cielo
eau	apă	['a.pə]	eau (occitan « aiga »), aqueux	aqua	acqua
feu	foc	[fok]	feu	focum	fuoco
homme (être humain)	om	[om]	homme	homo	uomo
homme (mâle)	bărbat	[bər'bat]	barbu	barbatus	barbuto
femme	femeie	[fe'me.je] (ie: diphtongue)	famille, femme	femina, familia	famiglia
mou	moale	['mo̯a.le] (oa: diphtongue)	mou (devant voyelle, « mol »)	mollis	molle
manger	a mânca	[a.mɨn'ka]	manger	manducare	mangiare
boire	a bea	[a'be̯a] (ea: diphtongue)	boire	bibere	bere
mer	mare	['ma.re]	mer	mare	mare
petit	mic	[mik]	mie	medium	mezzo
nuit	noapte	['no̯ap.te] (oa: diphtongue)	nuit	nox, noctis	notte
jour	zi	[zi]	-di (lundi, mardi, etc)	dies	-di (lunedi, martedi, etc), giorno, buon-dì
front	frunte	['frun.te]	front	fruntum	fronte
tempe	tâmplă	['tɨm.plə]	tempe	tempa	tempia
temple	templu	['tem.plu]	temple	templum	tempio
menuisier	tâmplar	[tɨm'plar]	templier	templum	templare

Phrases communes

Français	Roumain	Transcription phonétique	Traduction mot à mot
Salut !	Salut! / Bună!	/sa'lut/	-
Comment t'appelles-tu ?	Cum te cheamă?	/'kum.te'kěa.mə↘/	Comment on t'appelle?
Comment vous appelez-vous ?	Cum vă numiți?	/'kum.və.nu'mitsʲ↘/	Comment vous vous nommez?
Comment vas-tu ?	Ce mai faci? / Ce faci? (plus familier)	/'tʃe.maj.fatʃʲ↘/	Que encore fais-tu?
Au revoir !	La revedere! / Pa! (plus courant)	/la.re.ve'de.re/pa/	-
À plus tard !	Pe mai târziu!	/pe.maj.tɨr.'ziǔ/	-
S'il vous plaît.	Vă rog.	/və'rog/	Je vous en prie. (latin rogare).
Je suis désolé(e).	Îmi pare rău. / Pardon	/ɨmʲ'pa.re'rəǔ↘/	(ceci/il) me paraît mal.
Merci.	Mulțumesc./ Mersi.*	/mul.tsu'mesk/	Je remercie.
Oui.	Da.	/da/	-
Non.	Nu.	/nu/	-
Je ne comprends pas.	Nu înțeleg.	/'nu.ɨn.tse.leg↘/	-
Où sont les toilettes ?	Unde e toaleta/WC-ul?	/'un.de.je.to.a'le.ta↘/	Où est la toilette/le WC ?
Parlez-vous français ?	Vorbiți franceză?	/vor'bitsʲ.fraŋ'tʃe.za↗/	Parlez-vous le français?
Parlez-vous roumain ?	Vorbiți românește?	/vor'bitsʲ.ro.mɨ'neʃ.te↗/	Parlez-vous de manière roumaine?
Très bien.	Foarte bine.	/'fǒar.te'bi.ne/	Fort bien.
Comme je suis content(e) de te revoir !	Ce mă bucur că te văd din nou!	/'tʃe.mə'bu.kur.kə.te.'vəd.din.noǔ/	Qu'est-ce que je me réjouis que je te vois (de nouveau) !
Je t'aime.	Te iubesc.	/te.ju.'besk/	-

* Les Roumains ont emprunté le mot français mais Mulțumesc est toujours utilisé.

[coolfrenchguy]

Ahahaha

the worse music on earth serbian turbo-folk (originally a roma/mani shit) ,how people can listen this horrible shit, turbo-folk is the shame of modern music

[Varda]

Aromanian (left) and Romanian (right).