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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 1905783" data-attributes="member: 3477">Well, all members of the "Balkan Linguistic Union" share a few similarities that can be traced back to Latin, Slavic or Greek roots. No wonder, because all Balkanic language groups shared mixed settling areas before modern times with reciprocal influences. Whether you group Bulgarian into the Turkic or Slavonic language family is still a matter of debate, I suppose. Most of the time it's put into the Slavonic language family. The vocabulary is mostly Slavonic and very similar to Macedonian (some verb forms have been derived from Turkish). And Hungarian was shifted to Turkic languages? Last time I looked it was put into the Finno-Ugric family (together with Estonian), subdivision of Uralic languages. Are there any new clues in this field? I just ask, because you put Estonian into "Bothno-Ugric", where the "Ugric" part hints at Hungarian.I agree that Romanian culture contains many slavic elements.That's true. Btw, there's still a Slavic-speaking minority in Eastern Germany, speaking Sorbian <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. Things like this are always in a flow. Well, right. Nevertheless, I see the flair of the Balkan more in its mix of orthodox christianity and many different peoples living side by side. Transylvania is always very near to this border, most of time on the Hungarian side. What I defined as South-East Europe includes the Turks in this mix. Central Europe does not (except for a very short time) and contains catholic instead of orthodox in the mix, which is the main difference.Well, the keyword "van Helsing" was given. This sets the time frame. Coming from there, I put the population to Hungarian (I included the Szekler under this point) with a German minority. The actual percentage of Romanians is not so clear, because they were mostly serfs and did not often show up in the documents. On the other hand, Vlad was clearly Romanian, although he grew up at the Hungarian court.</blockquote>

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