The Romanic peoples. Indo-European migrations

At the end of the 19th century The so-called dialectic theory of the formation of Romance languages sought to substantiate the French linguist F. Moll in his book “Introduction to the Chronology of Vulgar Latin” (1899). In explaining the discrepancies between languages, he proceeded from the dialectical diversity of the Latin language itself during the period of Romanization. Depending on which local dialect of the Latin language fell into a particular Romanized province, the further destinies of the Romance languages arising in this territory were determined. This theory, however, also suffered from one-sidedness, reducing the problem of the origin of Romance languages to the dialectical discrepancies of the Latin language, which have not been studied enough. Finally, the theory of social connections determined a greater or lesser proximity between individual Romance languages and their dialects, social and economic ties that existed in antiquity between Romanized territories. Thus, the proximity of the Sicilian dialect to the Italian language and its relative remoteness from the Sardinian are explained by the primordial ties that existed between Sicily and the southern part of the Apennine peninsula. Using the data of this theory, linguists already in 1878 discovered a special Franco-Provencal group of dialects distributed in southeastern France and spreading over the territories of the regions of Savoy, Dauphine, Franche-Comté, part of Lorraine and the French part (linguistically) of Switzerland. At the same time, it was possible to establish that the well-known linguistic unity, covering so many different areas, is by no means accidental. It was on this territory that the second Burgundian kingdom existed in the 5th-6th centuries.