THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE is a Unique Phenomenon in the World without Precedent in the History of the Earth
Ioan Aluneanu
Many thinkers and men of con connotation of the time have made and recorded various references about our ancestors and the language of this Our Nation. Indeed, as Alfred Hofmann said 1820 - in his “History of the Earth”, nowhere will you find a quicker power of comprehension, a more open mind, a more keen wit, accompanied by the marvels of deportment, such as you find in the last rumun. This people elevated by instruction would be apt to stand at the head of the spiritual culture of Mankind. And as an addition, its language is so rich and harmonious, that it would suit the most cultured people on earth. "Romania is not the navel of the Earth, but the Axis of the Universe".
The Romanian language is a case of phenomenal uniqueness and unprecedented in the world... The writer Emil Cioran jokingly or seriously mentioned in an interview for Romanian television that if you want to switch from Romanian to French, it is like switching from a prayer to a contract. Why do we consider Romanian to be such a unique language?
It is not because we, ordinary Romanians, want to, but because even foreign linguists and historians admire it from the heights of their own studies, and we cannot reproach them for their subjectivity. There are real and flattering reasons which elevate the native language of Eminescu and Brâncuși to the podium of the rare ‘gems’ of humanity. Romansh is the only surviving Romance language, flourishing staunchly in these parts of Europe. It remains a mystery how this happened, as waves upon waves of barbarians have passed through here, with their Slavic (eastern Eurasian) or Uralic (northern Eurasian) languages. In other words, conquering peoples with strong, “boulder-like”, powerful languages have brought the Latin language to its knees wherever they passed, except here.
Romanian is 1700 years old. And the fact that it's old would not be much of a reason to praise it, but it's old in the way that, if we were to travel back in time to Wallachia 600 years ago, it would not be hard at all to understand what someone like Mircea the Elder was saying to his soldiers. It may seem self-evident, but the truth is that very few languages in the world have kept their “trunk” intact. Shakespeare's language or Napoleon's cannot boast such a state of preservation.
Pythagoras (580 B.C. - 495 B.C.) makes ten notable references to the superior values of the Getae. In “Law 1143” he says: "Travel to the Getae not to give them laws, but to learn from them. With the Getae all lands are boundless, all lands are common, and Homer wrote; “Of all peoples the Getae are the wisest.” If I heard such things on TV and didn't read them as being named inscriptions of great scholars, I would have thought they were just protoconisms.
There are several other references about the Dacian ancestors and the Romanian language noted by Plato Pholosophus of ancient Greece of the Hellenistic period who is the founder of the academy of Athens, student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, surprises with some notations about the Thracians, and the depth of their thoughts and god Zamolxe, Dionysius the Peregrinus and other scholars as well as archaeologists and philologists of the time, even by Emperor Joseph II who was called emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. ... but, who would read such a long post, because most people generally read only four lines, and that's if they are superimposed on a picture or a colored background.
Ioan Aluneanu
