The Aromanian dialects (Aromanian: dialecti or grairi/graire) are the distinct dialects of the Aromanian language. The Aromanians are an ethnic group composed of several subgroups differentiated from each other by, among other things, the dialect they speak. The most important groups are the Pindeans, Gramosteans, Farsherots and Graboveans, each with their respective dialect.[1] The Graboveans and their dialect are referred to by some authors as Moscopoleans[2] and Moscopolean.[3] The Aromanians of the villages of Gopeš (Gopish) and Malovište (Mulovishti) in North Macedonia also have their own distinctive dialect.[4] A few scholars also add the Olympian dialect spoken in Thessaly, Greece,[5] but the majority view is that Olympian is part of Pindean.[6]
The Codex Dimonie, a collection of historical Aromanian-language religious texts translated from Greek, features several characteristics of the Grabovean dialect.[7] In his dictionary of five languages, including Aromanian, the historical Aromanian linguist Nicolae Ianovici made use of the endonym ramanu for "Aromanian". This is typical of the Farsherot dialect, suggesting that Ianovici belonged to the subgroup of Farsherot Aromanians.[8]
- ^ Nevaci 2013, p. 103.
- ^ Saramandu & Nevaci 2017, p. 21.
- ^ Saramandu & Nevaci 2017, p. 20.
- ^ Nevaci 2013, p. 115.
- ^ Vrabie, Emil (2000). An English-Aromanian (Macedo-Romanian) Dictionary. Romance Monographs. p. 22. ISBN 1-889441-06-6.
- ^ Saramandu, Nicolae; Nevaci, Manuela (2020). "Atlasul lingvistic al dialectului aromân (ALAR)" (PDF). lingv.ro. p. 31. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ^ Saramandu & Nevaci 2017, p. 19.
- ^ Lascu 2017, p. 14.