NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Romanic peoples

The Latin peoples are those linguistic-cultural groups that speak one of the Romance languages; they are so-called because they speak languages descended from the vulgar form of Latin. They include:

and their cultural descendants in the larger world, especially in Latin America.

Categories: Ethnic groups

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History of the term Vlach at AllExperts (555 words)
	As the Celts of Gaul were Romanized, the word changed its meaning to "Romanic people", as it is still kept in the name of the Walloons of Belgium and in the German exonyms:
	This word for Romanic people was borrowed from the Germanic Goths (as *walhs) into Proto-Slavic some time before the 7th century.
	From the Slavs, it was passed on to other peoples, such as the Hungarians ("OlÃ¡h") and Byzantines/Greeks ("Î'Î»Î¬ÏÎ¿Î¯", "Vlachoi") and was used for all Latin people of the Balkans.

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