In today's article we are going to talk about Eastern Romance languages, a topic that has undoubtedly sparked the interest of many people over time. This topic has been approached from different perspectives and has generated a wide debate in society. Over the years, Eastern Romance languages has been the subject of study and research, leading to important discoveries and advances in the field. In this article, we will explore the various facets of Eastern Romance languages and analyze its impact on different areas of life. In addition, we will examine some of the most relevant aspects related to Eastern Romance languages, with the aim of providing a comprehensive and enriching vision on this topic.
Some classifications also include the extinct Dalmatian language (otherwise included in the Italo-Dalmatian group) as part of the Eastern Romance subgroup, considering Dalmatian a bridge between Italian and Romanian.
Languages
Eastern Romance comprises Romanian (or Daco-Romanian), Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian, according to the most widely accepted classification of the Romance languages. The four languages sometimes labelled as dialects of Romanian—developed from a common ancestor mostly referred as Common Romanian. They are surrounded by non-Romance languages.Judaeo-Spanish (or Ladino) is also spoken in the Balkan Peninsula, but it is rarely listed among the other Romance languages of the region because it is rather an Iberian Romance language that developed as a Jewish dialect of Old Spanish in the far west of Europe, and it only began to be spoken widely in the Balkans after the influx of Ladino-speaking refugees into the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century.
Internal classification
Within the Glottolog database, the languages are classified as follows:
Peter R. Petrucci, by contrast, states that Common Romanian had developed into two major dialects by the 10th century, and that Daco-Romanian and Istro-Romanian are descended from the northern dialect, while Megleno-Romanian and Aromanian are descended from the southern dialect.
Samples of Eastern Romance languages
Note: the lexicon used below is not universally recognized
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