User:Tchino

Romanesci (also cited by Giuseppe Lazarini in other wikipedia articles) is NOT a hoax....

...Hello - first let me apologize for any trouble my inexperience in wikipedia my have caused. I experienced quite a bit of difficulty adding references to other articles that mention Romanesci (pronounced "Romaneshti"). Aromanian is within the same family as Romanesci since it most likely also originated from Latin-speaking settlers of the Eastern Roman Empire (Greece in the case of the Romanae). Romanesci, however, is distinct and provides a very interesting window into the cultural/linguistic history of the common Latin-speaking people that inhabited the Eastern half of the Empire. To not acknowledge Romanesci would be a significant loss in the quest to link what remnants of the common Roman's speech still exist and are alive today. My credentials include 25 years of formal study of Roman history and the Latin language, a B.A. in the Classics (Greek and Roman History and Literature) from North Central College in Naperville, an unpublished thesis on the similarities of Romanesci and Latin (in most ways it is just as close if not closer than any Romance language to Latin), and of course - a lifetime of speaking the authentic Romanesci spoken by the Greco-Romans still living in Greece and many other areas of the former Roman Empire. Please feel free to contact me ([email protected]) if there is any interest in testing, proving, and documenting the living language of Romanesci (which literally means "knows Roman"). It would be a terrible shame to not share my findings on this language's link to the Roman past which shaped much of Western culture. As the Romanae still say - S'hai Sanitate (May You Have Health)

Romanesci (also cited by Giuseppe Lazarini in other wikipedia articles) is NOT a hoax....