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The history of the Romanian language started in Roman provinces north of the Jireček Line in Classical antiquity.There are three main hypotheses around its exact territory: the autochthony thesis (it developed in left-Danube Dacia only), the discontinuation thesis (it developed in right-Danube provinces only), and the "as-well-as" thesis that supports the language development on both sides of ...
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 ...
The history of the Romanian language started in the Roman provinces north of the Jireček Line in Classical antiquity but there are 3 main hypotheses about its exact territory: the autochthony thesis (it developed in left-Danube Dacia only), the discontinuation thesis (it developed in right-Danube provinces only), and the "as-well-as" thesis that supports the language development on both sides ...
Geographical distribution of the four Eastern Romance languages in the early-20th-century. Romanian is a Romance language with about 25 million native speakers. [2] It is the official language of Romania and Moldova and has a co-official status in Vojvodina (in Serbia). [2] Ethnic Romanians also live in Ukraine [2] and Hungary. [3]
[1] Latin and Greek were the dominant languages of the Roman Empire, but other languages were regionally important. Latin was the original language of the Romans and remained the language of imperial administration, legislation, and the military throughout the classical period. [2]
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.
c. 20 AD – Strabo publishes his Geographica (Geography) giving a detailed account of the Dacian Kingdom at the time of Burebista in Book VII, Chapter 3 (Mysia, Dacia, and the Danube); [26] he mentions that Getae and Dacians speak the same language, [27] and makes important references to the high priest Deceneus and the teachings of Zalmoxis ...
The "Jireček Line"Romanians speak a language originating from the dialects of the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line". [25]This line divided, in Roman times, the predominantly Greek-speaking southern provinces from those where Latin was the principal language of communication. [26]