Aromanian (also known as Macedoromanian, Vlach or Wallachian; in Aromanian: Armâneashti or Vlăheşte) is a language in the eastern group of the Romance languages. It is considered to be either a Romaniandialect or a separate language.
The language is similar to Romanian, but it does exhibit some differences, especially in vocabulary. Aromanian is spoken by the Aromanian or Vlach minority in the Republic of Macedonia, but also in parts of Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece, as well as in Romania where there is minority of Aromanians which recently migrated from the Balkans.
Greek and Bulgarian influences are much stronger than in other East Romance languages, especially because Aromanian used Greek words to coin new words (neologisms), while Romanian based most of its neologisms on Italian and French.
Still the lexical composition remains mainly Romance. Just as in Romanian, the morphology is rather different from other descendants of Latin. For example, the article is appended to the end of the word, and both definite and indefinite articles can be declined. Nouns have common (or neuter) gender in addition to masculine and feminine genders. On the other hand, the sequence of tenses is absolutely absent.
It is generally considered that Aromanian dialects split from the main Romanian language around 1200 years ago. It contains the same common words with Albanian as Romanian (believed to be of Dacian) and 70 early Slavic borrowings, but no Hungarian language words.
All the dialects of Romanian are believed to have been unified in a Common Romanianlanguage until sometime between the 7th and the 10th century when the area was influenced by the Byzantine Empire and Romanian became influenced by the Slavonic languages.
Romanian is a Romancelanguage, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-Europeanlanguage family, having much in common with languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Romanian is one of the five languages in which religious services are performed in the autonomous monastic state of Mount Athos, spoken in the sketae of Prodromos and Lacu (a sketa being a community of monks; sketae is plural).
Romanian is spoken mostly in Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, but there are also Romanianlanguage speakers in countries like Canada, United States, Germany, Israel, Australia and New Zealand, mainly due to post-World War II emigration.
In the Constitution, the language is officially named Moldovan, although most linguists argue on this, and consider it virtually the same as the Romanianlanguage.
The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) has since 1992 organised summer training courses in Romanian for language teachers in these countries.Cursuri de perfecţionare, published in Ziua on August 19, 2005 In some of the schools, there are non-Romanian nationals, that study Romanian as a foreign language (for example the Nicolae Bălcescu High-school in Gyula, Hungary).
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