Eastern Romance

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Eastern Romance is a branch of the Romance language family that includes languages such as Romanian, Aromanian, and related varieties spoken primarily in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Romance canonical 6
Romance Europe 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Romance languages
language subgroup
developedFrom Balkan Latin
Vulgar Latin
geographicDistribution Balkan mountains region
linked to: Balkan Mountains

Carpathian region
Southeastern Europe
linked to: Balkans
hasCharacteristic SVO basic word order
influence from Albanian
influence from Greek
influence from Slavic languages
palatalization of velar consonants before front vowels
postposed definite article
reduction of Latin case system
use of periphrastic verb forms
hasMember Aromanian language
linked to: Aromanian

Daco-Romanian language
linked to: Romanian language

Istro-Romanian dialects
linked to: Istro-Romanian

Istro-Romanian language
linked to: Istro-Romanian

Macedo-Romanian (Aromanian)
linked to: Aromanian

Meglenitic dialects
Megleno-Romanian language
linked to: Megleno-Romanian

Moldovan Romanian
linked to: Romanian language

Romanian language
Thessalian Aromanian dialects
Vlax Romanian varieties
linked to: Vlach language
historicalRegion Balkan Peninsula
linked to: Balkans

Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire
linguisticAncestorOf modern Aromanian language
modern Istro-Romanian language
modern Megleno-Romanian language
modern Romanian language
partOf Italic languages
sharesFeatureWith Balkan Sprachbund
spokenIn Albania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Eastern Europe
Greece
Hungary
Moldova
North Macedonia
Romania
Serbia
Ukraine
the Balkans
linked to: Balkans
subclassOf Indo-European languages
Romance languages

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Megleno-Romanian languageGroup Eastern Romance
Dalmatian language languageBranch Eastern Romance
Meglen region historicalLanguageFamily Eastern Romance
Vlach language languageBranch Eastern Romance
Luxembourg region hasCulturalInfluenceFrom Romance Europe
linked to: Eastern Romance
Western Romance contrastedWith Eastern Romance
Balkan Vlachs languageBranch Eastern Romance