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Eastern Romance

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The Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance languages comprising the Romanian language, also called Daco-Romanian, the Aromanian language, and two other related minor languages, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian.

Facts
Region
Southeast Europe and Eastern Europe 1
Proto-Language Status
Descend from a common ancestor called Common Romanian, itself descended from Proto-Romance and Vulgar Latin 1
Connections

Descends From

Eastern Romance groups Romanian and the other Balkan Romance varieties east of the Spezia-Rimini isogloss line.

Sources
1. Eastern Romance languages, Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Geographic distribution field
    Geographic distribution: Southeast Europe, Eastern Europe
  • Languages section
    The four languages are sometimes labelled as dialects of Romanian and developed from a common ancestor known as Common Romanian.
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