Eastern Romance

Also known as Eastern Romance languages, Balkan Romance, Balkan Romance languages, Daco-Romance, Daco-Romance languages

language family

Key facts

Geographic distribution: Southeast Europe , Eastern Europe
Linguistic classification: Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Eastern Romance
Early forms: Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Common Romanian
Subdivisions: Daco-Romanian (Romanian) Aromanian Megleno-Romanian Istro-Romanian
Glottolog: east2714 (Eastern Romance)

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The Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance languages. The group comprises the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian), the Aromanian language and two other related minor languages, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian.

The extinct Dalmatian language (otherwise included in the Central Romance group) is sometimes included as part of the Eastern Romance group, being considered a bridge between Italian and Romanian. Some classifications of the Romance languages consider Eastern and Central Romance to form a clade (often simply called "Eastern Romance", with "Eastern Romance proper" referred to as Balkan or Daco-Romance), but nowadays Central Romance are more often grouped with the Western Romance languages as "Italo-Western".