Common Romanian (also known as Proto-Romanian) is a hypothetical language considered to have been spoken by the Romanians after the breakdown of the Roman Empire and before it was broken into modern Balkan Romance languages and dialects: The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ...
The place where this language was formed is still under debate; most likely it was formed in Dacia (current Romania), Moesia (Eastern Serbia) or Northeastern Albania. See: Origin of Romanians Aromanian (also known as Macedo-romanian, Vlach, in Aromanian: Armăneashce or Vlăheshte) is a language in the eastern group of the Romance languages, spoken in the Balkans. ... Megleno–Romanian (also known as Vlaheshte by native speakers and Meglenitic) is a Romance language, similar to Aromanian, spoken in the Meglen region, located in the Kilkis prefecture in Macedonia, Greece, as well as in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. ... Map of Istro-Romanian, made by Puşcariu in 1926 Istro-Romanian is a Romance language used in a few villages in the peninsula of Istria, on the upper northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia. ... Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci or Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras (Dniester or Nistru... In ancient geography, Moesia was a district inhabited by a Thracian people. ... The Romanians (also sometimes referred to as Vlachs) are a nation speaking Romanian, a Romance language and living in Central and Eastern Europe. ...
With the expansion of the Roman Empire, Latin, more specifically, the BalkanLatin (which was the ancestor of Romanian), would exert a great influence on Albanian.
The Albanian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, with the addition of the letters ë, ç, and nine digraphs to account for certain sounds in pronunciations.
Until 1908, when the Latin alphabet was introduced in Albanian, the Greek alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet, and the Ottoman Turkish version of the Arabic alphabet had been used to write Albanian.
In historical contexts, and along with other BalkanLatin peoples such as the Aromanians, they are sometimes referred to as Vlachs, a name derived via Slavic ultimately from Germanic which was used to refer to all Romanized natives of the Balkans.
The entire Balkan peninsula was annexed by the Ottoman Empire, but Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania remained autonomous under Ottoman suzerainty.
The name of "Vlachs" is an exonym that was used by Slavs to refer to all Romanized natives of the Balkans.
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