Dear Gia,

I appreciate your ability in presenting Romanian as a secondary language to study. I have a small problem with something from your article here.Quote from it : `Slavic loanwords, especially from Russian, Bulgarian, Slavonic`.

From what I know, Romanian, (and here I don`t include the subdialect currently spoken in Republic of Moldova which is an exception which confirms the rule) has zero or almost zero loanwords from Russian.Loanwords from Bulgarian are very, if not extremely rare. This is very much related to the ethnogenesis of Bulgarians as a new nation. Is sure that „ until the end of 9th century the official language of Bulgarians was Greek.The alphabet introduced by Kirill and Metodius guided the Slavs and the Bulgarians towards a Slavic culture`. (wikipedia-Bulgaria- in Romanian language) But at that time, according to the scholars, Romanian was already formed as a language. So, the Slavic words from Romanian, in their vast majority, could have come from Slavonic and are old words.Slavs were very present in today`s Romanian teritory in almost entirely 6th century and many remained even after and were asimilated, Slavs having a significant role in the ethnogenesis of Romanians.

Don`t be mislead by the Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language.If they give similar words, these can be cognates and even derivatives from Romanian words, not necesarry that those languages originated the words. But if you have arguments related to Romanian words coming from Russian or Bulgarian, I wait to read them.