Megleno-Romanian language

Megleno-Romanian
Meglenitic, Meglinitic, Moglenitic
vlăhește[citation needed]
Native toGreece, North Macedonia, Romania, Turkey,[1] Serbia
EthnicityMegleno-Romanians
Native speakers
5,000 (2002)[2]
Indo-European
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3ruq
Glottologmegl1237
ELPMegleno-Romanian
Linguasphere51-AAD-bb
The extent of Megleno-Romanian (in purple) and Aromanian (in gold)
Romanian schools for Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians in the Ottoman Empire (1886)

Megleno-Romanian (known as vlăhește[citation needed] by its speakers, and Megleno-Romanian or Meglenitic and sometimes Moglenitic or Meglinitic by linguists) is an Eastern Romance language, similar to Aromanian.[5] It is spoken by the Megleno-Romanians in a few villages in the Moglena region that spans the border between the Greek region of Macedonia and North Macedonia. It is also spoken by emigrants from these villages and their descendants in Romania, in Turkey by a small Muslim group, and in Serbia. It is considered an endangered language.

  1. ^ a b Ethnologue entry
  2. ^ Megleno-Romanian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ^ Petrucci 1999, p. 4.
  4. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Eastern Romance". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  5. ^ Romanian language – Britannica Online Encyclopedia


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