The Moravian Wallachian dialect is a
Czech
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*Czech (surnam ...
dialect native to
Moravian Wallachia
Moravian Wallachia (, or simply ''Valašsko''; ) is a mountainous ethnoregion located in the easternmost part of Moravia in the Czech Republic, near the Slovakia, Slovak border, roughly centered on the cities Vsetín, Valašské Meziříčí and ...
, influenced by standard Czech and
Slovak, which includes
Romanian
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words from
Daco-Romanian such as bača "shepherd", brynza "cheese", domikát "type of dairy", grapa "steep mountain meadow", pirťa "path for sheep", kurnota "horned sheep", košár "fence for sheep", kozub "fireplace", kyrdel "flock", murgaňa/murgaša "dark-wooled sheep", putira/putyra "little", strunga/strunka "garden gate", watra "fire", or žinčica "sheep whey".
For the above reasons Czech specialists hypothize that groups of Romanian shepherds from present-day
Romania
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(
Transylvania
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,
Banat
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) or present-day eastern Serbia, settled in East Moravia at the latest in the 15th–17th centuries.
In the local dialect the forest-mountain-refuge was known as ''hora''. The influence expanded to toponymy as well with words such as: magura - distinctive round-shaped hill, kyčera, grúň - deforested mountain ridge for pasture, polonina or polana - “alpine” pasture.
See also
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Moravian dialects
Moravian dialects () are the variety (linguistics), varieties of Czech language, Czech spoken in Moravia, a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic. There are more forms of the Czech language used in Moravia than in the rest of the C ...
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Eastern Romance influence on Slavic languages
Although the direction of language contact between Romanian language, Romanian and Slavic languages is overwhelmingly towards Romanian as well as its other Eastern Romance languages, Eastern Romance sister languages (Aromanian language, Aromanian, ...
References
Czech dialects
Eastern Romance people
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