It is said that dalmatian is the missing link between italian and romanian.
If so, how close are romanian and dalmatian and what does their relationship tell us about the romanian ethnogenesis (its area more specifically)?
Thank you!
Have you cross linked this post to r/linguistics? This question is right up their alley
This isn't something I know much about but I've heard good thing on Andre du Nay's The Origins of the Rumanians, by all indications the authoritative text on the matter (albeit a text controversial among Romanian nationalists for its argumentation against a Dacian origin of the Romanian people). While I haven't gotten around to reading the entire thing yet, and I'm not sure if there's any discussion of Dalmatian specifically, it goes into detail on the relationship between Romanian and Albanian