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5 unusual facts about Aromanian


Branislav Nušić

Born Alkibijad Nuša (Aromanian: Alchiviadi al Nuşa) in Belgrade, Principality of Serbia to a well-off family in a house located in Kralja Petra Street that has since been demolished (today, the National Bank of Serbia building is located in that spot).

As an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he was appointed to clerk of consulate in the Aromanian city of Bitola, where he eventually married (1893).

His father Goerge Nusha (Đorđe Nuša) was a well known grain merchant of Cincar (Aromanian or Vlach) origin who lost his wealth shortly after his son's birth and was forced to move the family to Semedria orSmederevo where young Alkibijad attended elementary school and first two grades of boarding school.

Nikola Martinoski

Martinoski was born as Nikolache Martin in 1903 to an Aromanian family in Kuruşova (which, at that time, was part of the Ottoman Empire).

Sandër Prosi

Sandër Prosi (6 January 1920 – 24 March 1985), born Aleksandër Prosi, was an Albanian actor of Aromanian origin.


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Aromanians

This in fact puts the other two languages which developed from this form of Vulgar Latin - the Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian languages - in the same position as Aromanian.

Gigi Becali

He was born in an Aromanian family in Zagna, Vădeni, Brăila County, as his family had been deported to the Bărăgan by the Communist authorities because of their associations with the pre-WWII fascist Iron Guard.

Prosilio

Prosilio is one of the Aromanian-speaking villages of Tzoumerka (including Syrrako, Kalarites, Matsouki, Palaiochori and Vathypedo).

Romanian subdialects

First, according to many linguists, the Romanian language (in the wider sense) is already divided into four dialects: Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian; these, according to other linguists, are separate languages.


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