“Why Gypsies and Albanians do not have their own letters”. Greek attitudes towards neighbouring languages during the 19th century

SUMMARY

“Why Gypsies and Albanians do not have their own letters”. Greek attitudes towards neighbouring languages during the 19th centuryIn this article several aspects of the Greek attitudes towards neighbours’ languages during the 19th century are presented and analyzed. We believe that the decades before the Greek Revolution, known also as the period of maturity for the Modern Greek Enlightenment, deserve more of our attention and concern. The issue needs to be further investigated and the written resources from the specific time must be exhaustively researched in order for us to form a broader view of the situation. „Dlaczego Cyganie i Albanczycy nie maja wlasnych liter”. Dziewietnastowieczny stosunek Greków do jezyków sasiadówW artykule przedstawiono i przeanalizowano kilka dziewietnastowiecznych greckich pogladów na temat jezyków sasiadów. Zdaniem autora okres kilku dekad przed „Grecka Rewolucja”, znany równiez jako okres dojrzalego greckiego oswiecenia, zasluguje na doglebna analize. Dla lepszego zrozumienia sytuacji konieczna jest kontynuacja badan pisanych zródel tego okresu.