Hungarian and Romanian...infact I said that if you read
<p>I mentioned that hungarian and romanian saying that despite in these countries the language root as I said is not "slav-slavic" in italian is very common to refer as "Slavo" even these countries where the language is not "slav" derivation.... in Italian that's a term used generally to refer to something belonging to eastern europe, even to countries where there is not a "slav" langiage root such Romania and Hungary, that's what I mentioned.
Of course Romanian has latin origins, here the name Romania.... Ancient Romans moved to eastern countries like Romania infact used to speak Latin naturally. So is a fact that Romanian language has latin origins, and infact many words resemble italian that is also a latin language.... about Hungary as you mention is another matter, that's an unidentified mix.
The italian term slavo that we translated with "slavonian" is an adjective that refer also to this,....this may be correct or incorrect to be used to refer to every eastern country or things belonging to them from certain points of view especially because this is a typical italian term and concept and the meaning it has in italian my mother thought to be better translated with the english term "slavonian"....of course by examine the language root or main population ancestors would not be much correct, even if both Hungary and Romania were largely influnenced about the culture by "slavs.
But it is just for this reason that in Italy is so largely used this way, as a kind of "folk-slang term" but actually so mcuh used and even reported in some vocabolaries with this meaning, this because it's anyway part of common language even if "slang-folk term" for this meaning that may result uncorrect under certains points, you'll not find "Slavo" referring to Romania or Hungary in schoolbooks, but that's how most italians refer to all of these eastern countries in general....infact I said I think it is used this way just in Europe or maybe just in Italian....it's not a mistery nor a false claim that countries as Romania and Hungary always shared with, and were influenced by slavs so much, they have much things in common to slavic "culture" than they have with western Europe/ans or Italy, so this is probably the main reason why they're called "slavi", "slavic-slavonians" even the ones not having a "slav" language" or not reported in what are the "slavic" countries on the maps.
After all, just talking about this Tide to make a practical example....the same bags are sold in Serbia (slavic.slav language) and Romania also, and other eastern countries...this gives just the idea why in italian the term is used this way, because historically the things, culture, food etc....has always been more "slavic", more similar and identificable to estern than western culture...
I know it's wrong geographically speaking, is more a conceptual speech than a geographic or ancestors and ethnicity one, it's just a "rough" aproximative common popular speech, not for this that wrong about it's conceptual meaning though, that became part of everyone's language, even TV News, newspapers etc often refers to Slavi talking about Albanians, Romanians etc...
From Gorizia to the Russia, for an italian, it's all "Slav"....[this post was last edited: 7/4/2013-12:07]
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