The document provides context on the Vlach people, including:
- The Vlachs are small communities speaking a Latin-derived dialect found scattered in the central Balkans, with various names used to refer to them.
- Estimating the current number of Vlach speakers is difficult due to factors like bilingualism, but they have likely declined significantly in the last 50 years due to wars, population movements, and modernization.
- In Greece, World War 2 and the subsequent civil war disrupted Vlach ways of life and led to increased migration to towns, though some villages remain.
The document provides context on the Vlach people, including:
- The Vlachs are small communities speaking a Latin-derived dialect found scattered in the central Balkans, with various names used to refer to them.
- Estimating the current number of Vlach speakers is difficult due to factors like bilingualism, but they have likely declined significantly in the last 50 years due to wars, population movements, and modernization.
- In Greece, World War 2 and the subsequent civil war disrupted Vlach ways of life and led to increased migration to towns, though some villages remain.
The document provides context on the Vlach people, including:
- The Vlachs are small communities speaking a Latin-derived dialect found scattered in the central Balkans, with various names used to refer to them.
- Estimating the current number of Vlach speakers is difficult due to factors like bilingualism, but they have likely declined significantly in the last 50 years due to wars, population movements, and modernization.
- In Greece, World War 2 and the subsequent civil war disrupted Vlach ways of life and led to increased migration to towns, though some villages remain.
Of The Wallachian and Bulgarian Languages in ''Researches in Greece:Remarks On The Languages Spoken in Greece at The Present Day (1814) '' by William Martin-Leake
Giakoumis K. (2006), ‘Religious Fairs in the Ottoman Empire’s Habitation History: Christian Feasts in Epiros and Albania as Urban Social Events and Their manifestations Displayed in Ecclesiastical Painting of the 16th and 17th Century’, in Shupo S. [ed.] (2006), Urban Music in the Balkans. International Symposium in Honorem Ramadam Sokoli, Tirana September 28 – October 01, 2006, Tirana: Asmus Publ., pp. 76-112.