Minority within a Minority: Iabalcea and Carașova in Romania
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Daria V. Konior
Abstract
One of the few remaining groups that could have represented a symbioticSlavic-Romance community in the past is the Krashovani, a mostly Slavicspeaking Catholic people, who presumably came to the territory of the Romanian Banat over several waves of migration. In one of the Krashovani villages called Iabalcea we observe a rather atypical collection of cultural features. Members of a small community identify themselves as Croats or Krashovani and share a Catholic culture along with some features taken from Orthodox folk tradition while speaking Romanian in everyday communication. The lexical subsystem of traditional wedding rituals in Carașova and Iabalcea seems to be a single cultural code presented in two separate, but closely related, linguistic iterations. It is argued that such diffusion becomes possible in areas where migration flows are large and the population is put under a special type of state and church authority.1
Abstract
One of the few remaining groups that could have represented a symbioticSlavic-Romance community in the past is the Krashovani, a mostly Slavicspeaking Catholic people, who presumably came to the territory of the Romanian Banat over several waves of migration. In one of the Krashovani villages called Iabalcea we observe a rather atypical collection of cultural features. Members of a small community identify themselves as Croats or Krashovani and share a Catholic culture along with some features taken from Orthodox folk tradition while speaking Romanian in everyday communication. The lexical subsystem of traditional wedding rituals in Carașova and Iabalcea seems to be a single cultural code presented in two separate, but closely related, linguistic iterations. It is argued that such diffusion becomes possible in areas where migration flows are large and the population is put under a special type of state and church authority.1
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Editor’s Preface V
- Contents XI
- Contemporary Language Contacts in the Balkans: Situations and Outcomes 1
- Separation and Symbiosis between Slavs and Albanians as Continuum of Linguistic Contact Situations: New Challenges for New Data 27
- Mutual Understanding among Albanians, Slavs and Aromanians in Prespa, North Macedonia: Perfect Tense as a Perfect Tool 59
- “Balanced Language Contact” in Social Context: Velja Gorana in Southern Montenegro 89
- Symbiosis Suspectus: Palasa in Himara, Albania 135
- Minority within a Minority: Iabalcea and Carașova in Romania 157
- Evidence for Past Coexistence: Romance Stratum in Croatian Glagolitic Sources from Krk, Croatia 189
- Reconstructing Past Coexistence: Problems and Mysteries in the Multilingual History of Tsakonia, Greece 215
- Convergence and Failure to Converge in Relative Social Isolation: Balkan Judezmo 265
- Balkan Sprachbund Theory as a Research Paradigm 285
- Abbreviations 315
- Index of names 317
- Index of places 322
- Authors’ profiles 327
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Editor’s Preface V
- Contents XI
- Contemporary Language Contacts in the Balkans: Situations and Outcomes 1
- Separation and Symbiosis between Slavs and Albanians as Continuum of Linguistic Contact Situations: New Challenges for New Data 27
- Mutual Understanding among Albanians, Slavs and Aromanians in Prespa, North Macedonia: Perfect Tense as a Perfect Tool 59
- “Balanced Language Contact” in Social Context: Velja Gorana in Southern Montenegro 89
- Symbiosis Suspectus: Palasa in Himara, Albania 135
- Minority within a Minority: Iabalcea and Carașova in Romania 157
- Evidence for Past Coexistence: Romance Stratum in Croatian Glagolitic Sources from Krk, Croatia 189
- Reconstructing Past Coexistence: Problems and Mysteries in the Multilingual History of Tsakonia, Greece 215
- Convergence and Failure to Converge in Relative Social Isolation: Balkan Judezmo 265
- Balkan Sprachbund Theory as a Research Paradigm 285
- Abbreviations 315
- Index of names 317
- Index of places 322
- Authors’ profiles 327
