Several theories address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line" (a proposed notional line separating the predominantly Latin-speaking territories from the Greek-speaking lands in Southeastern Europe) in Late Antiquity.The theory of Daco-Roman continuity …

The origin and language of the Bulgars has been the subject of debate since around the start of the 20th century. It is generally accepted that at least the Bulgar elite spoke a language that was a member of the Oghur branch of the Turkic language family, alongside the now extinct Khazar and the solitary survivor of these languages, Chuvash.

Bulgarian (/ b ʌ l ˈ ɡ ɛər i ə n / (), / b ʊ l ˈ-/ bu(u)l-GAIR-ee-ən; български, bălgarski, pronounced [ˈbɤɫɡɐrski] ()) is a South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria.It is the language of the Bulgarians.. Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the East South Slavic languages), it is a member of the ...

Pomaks (Bulgarian: Помаци, romanized: Pomatsi; Greek: Πομάκοι, romanized: Pomáki; Turkish: Pomaklar) are Bulgarian-speaking Muslims inhabiting northwestern Turkey, Bulgaria and northeastern Greece. The c. 220,000 strong ethno-confessional minority in Bulgaria is recognized officially as Bulgarian Muslims by the government. The term has also been used as a wider …

Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym djudeoespanyol, Hebrew script: גﬞודﬞיאו־איספאנייול ‎, Cyrillic: жудеоеспањол), also known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish.Originally spoken in Spain, and then after the Edict of Expulsion spreading through the Ottoman Empire (the Balkans, Turkey, Western Asia, and North Africa) as well as ...

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It was the last major Slavic language to attain a standard literary form; during World War II its central dialects of Prilep and Veles were elevated to that status. The eastern Macedonian dialect is closer to Bulgarian, whereas the northern dialect shares some features with the Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian languages (BCMS).

Origin. A likely origin for the "ten percent myth" is the reserve energy theories of Harvard psychologists, William James and Boris Sidis.In the 1890s, they tested the theory in the accelerated raising of child prodigy William Sidis.Thereafter, James told lecture audiences that people only meet a fraction of their full mental potential, which is considered a plausible claim.

Language discrimination is a subset of national origin discrimination. Language discrimination refers to the unfair treatment of an individual based solely upon the characteristics of their speech; such as, accent, size of vocabulary, and syntax. It can also involve a person's ability or inability to use one language instead of another.

The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of Central, East, North, South and West Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.. The origins of the Turkic peoples has been a topic of much discussion. Recent linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest Turkic peoples descended from agricultural communities …