| Common Romanian | |
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| Proto-Romanian | |
| Reconstruction of | Eastern Romance languages |
| Region | Balkans and part of Eastern Europe |
| Era | c. 6th or 7th – 10th or 11th centuries |
Reconstructed ancestors | |
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Common Romanian (Romanian: română comună), also known as Ancient Romanian (străromână), or Proto-Romanian (protoromână), is a comparatively reconstructed Romance language evolved from Vulgar Latin and spoken by the ancestors of today's Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and related Balkan Latin peoples (Vlachs) between the 6th or 7th century AD[1] and the 10th or 11th centuries AD.[2] The evidence for this can be found in the fact that Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian share with each other their main language innovations comparative to Vulgar Latin on one hand, and distinctive from the other Romance languages on the other, according to Romanian linguist Marius Sala.[3]
- ^ Ciobanu, Alina Maria; Dinu, Liviu P. (2016). "A computational perspective on the Romanian dialects" (PDF). Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16): 3281–3285.
- ^ Sala, Marius (2010). "Romanian" (PDF). Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire. 88 (3): 841–872. doi:10.3406/rbph.2010.7806.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Sala, Marius (2012). De la Latină la Română] [From Latin to Romanian]. Editura Pro Universitaria. p. 33. ISBN 978-606-647-435-1.