Eastern Romance Languages

The Eastern Romance languages, sometimes known as the ''' Vlach languages''', are a group of Romance Languages that developed in Southeastern Europe from the local eastern variant of Vulgar Latin .

HISTORY

From Vulgar Latin, several hundreds of years afterward, a language called (today's Romanian ), Aromanian , Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian .

In addition, in the Soviet Union the Moldovan Language was officially introduced, to draw a distinction between the Romanian and Moldovan nations, an attempt that had eventually failed.

COMMON FEATURES

Main article: Proto-Romanian

This group was one of the earliest to be isolated. As such, they contain a few words which were replaced with Germanic borrowings in Western Romance languages, for example, the word for ''white'' is derived from Latin "albus" instead of Germanic "blank".

They also share a few sound changes with the western Romance languages: some with Italian, such as > [kj (Lat. clarus > Rom. '''chi'''ar, Ital. '''chi'''aro) and also a few with .

The languages that are part of this group have some features that differentiate them from the other Romance languages, notable being the grammatical features shared within the Balkan Linguistic Union as well as some semantic peculiarities, such as ''lume'' ("world") being derived from Latin ''lumen'' ("light"), ''inimă'' ("heart") being derived from Latin ''anima'' ("soul"), etc.

They also contain a Paleo-Balkanic Substrate of a few hundreds of words, shared with Albanian (considered to be of Dacian origin) and 70 early Slavic borrowings, but the Hungarian language words are found only in Romanian and Istro-Romanian.

LANGUAGES

Romanian (known officially as Moldovan in the Republic Of Moldova )

Aromanian

Megleno-Romanian

Istro-Romanian

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