Some scholars consider Megleno–Romanian to be a dialect of the Aromanian language, while others consider it to be an independent language. It is closer to standard Romanian than the Macedo–Romanian variant of Aromanian spoken by a much larger minority in Pindus; some linguists consider it to be an intermediary between the two.
While the evolution of the Aromanian language can be explained by the fact that the Aromanians were isolated from the other Romanians from the 9th century, it seems that the Megleno–Romanians left their linguistic union with the Romanians at a much later time; one theory is that the area was settled some time around the 14th century by the Byzantines. (disputed — see talk page)
Romanian is a Romance language, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language 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).
The Dacian language was an Indo-European language spoken by the ancient Dacians.
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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