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Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line" (a proposed notional line separating the predominantly Latin-speaking territories from the Greek-speaking lands in Southeastern Europe) in Late Antiquity.
Romanian revolutionaries of 1848 waving the tricolor flag. The name Romanian is derived from Latin romanus, meaning "Roman". [140] Under regular phonetical changes that are typical to the Romanian language, the name romanus over the centuries transformed into rumân. An older form of român was still in use in some regions.
How and when the Romanians came to adopt these names is not entirely clear, [ac] but one theory is the idea of Daco-Roman continuity, that the modern Romanians are descended from Daco-Romans that came about as a result of Roman colonisation following the conquest of Dacia by Trajan (r. 98–117). [165]
Significant Romanian diasporas developed in other European countries (especially in Italy and Spain) and in North America, Australia and Israel. [2] Romanian is closely related to three other Eastern Romance languages, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian, all descending from a common Proto-Romanian language. [4]
The modern country of Romania. Romanians trace their origin to the Roman Empire's province of Roman Dacia, arguing that Roman colonization in the region gave rise to the Romanian people. The Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians, ethnicities related to the Romanians whose names originate or originated from "Roman" or similar words.
The term Latin Europe is sometimes used in reference to European nations and regions inhabited by Romance-speaking people. [15] [16] [17] Latin America is the region of the Americas that was colonized by Latin Europeans, and came to be called so in the 19th century. [18]
The name of Romania (România) comes from the Romanian Român, which is a derivative of the Latin adjective Romanus (Roman). [1] Romanians are a people living in Eastern Europe speaking a Romance language .
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 between the 6th or 7th century AD [1] and the 10th or 11th ...