Aromanian

E15960

Eastern Romance language Romance language Vlach language minority language

Aromanian is an Eastern Romance language spoken by the Aromanian people in the Balkans, closely related to Romanian but distinct in its history, vocabulary, and phonology.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Aromanian canonical	10
Aromanian language	7
Aromanians	5
Farsherot Aromanian	1
Gramostean Aromanian	1
Macedo-Romanian	1
Macedo-Romanian (Aromanian)	1
Pindean Aromanian	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Eastern Romance language ⓘ Romance language ⓘ Vlach language ⓘ minority language ⓘ
ancestor	Vulgar Latin ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Istro-Romanian ⓘ Megleno-Romanian ⓘ Romanian ⓘ
developedFrom	Balkan Latin ⓘ
endangeredStatus	definitely endangered (in several countries) ⓘ
family	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages
Glottocode	arom1237 ⓘ
group	Romance languages ⓘ surface form: Eastern Romance languages
hasAlternativeName	Armãneashce (autonym) ⓘ Aromanian ⓘ surface form: Macedo-Romanian Vlach (in some contexts) ⓘ
hasDialect	Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Farsherot Aromanian Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Gramostean Aromanian Moscopolean Aromanian ⓘ Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Pindean Aromanian
hasFeature	distinct phonology from standard Romanian ⓘ distinct vocabulary from standard Romanian ⓘ preserves Latin neuter gender in a distinct way ⓘ shows influence from Albanian vocabulary ⓘ shows influence from South Slavic languages ⓘ shows strong influence from Greek vocabulary ⓘ stress-accented language ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Cyrillic script (historically and locally) ⓘ Greek script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ
isNot	dialect of Romanian (in most linguistic classifications) ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	rup ⓘ
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn	Albania ⓘ North Macedonia ⓘ Romania ⓘ
region	Balkans ⓘ
spokenBy	Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Aromanians
spokenIn	Albania ⓘ Bulgaria ⓘ Greece ⓘ North Macedonia ⓘ Romania ⓘ Serbia ⓘ diaspora communities ⓘ
subfamily	Romance languages ⓘ
usedFor	local media and publications ⓘ oral tradition and folk songs ⓘ religious services in some communities ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Aromanian
Description of subject: Aromanian is an Eastern Romance language spoken by the Aromanian people in the Balkans, closely related to Romanian but distinct in its history, vocabulary, and phonology.

Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Romanian language → hasDialect → Aromanian ⓘ

Romance languages → includeLanguage → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanian language

Aromanian → spokenBy → Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanians

Aromanian → hasDialect → Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pindean Aromanian

Aromanian → hasDialect → Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Gramostean Aromanian

Aromanian → hasDialect → Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Farsherot Aromanian

Aromanian → hasAlternativeName → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Macedo-Romanian

Istro-Romanian → closelyRelatedTo → Aromanian ⓘ

Megleno-Romanian → closelyRelatedTo → Aromanian ⓘ

Megleno-Romanian → hasLexicalSimilarityWith → Aromanian ⓘ

Dobruja → historicallyInhabitedBy → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanians

Vlach of Istria → relatedEthnicity → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanians

Balkan Sprachbund → hasMemberLanguage → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanian language

Vlach (in some contexts) → speaks → Aromanian ⓘ

subject surface form: Vlach (Aromanian people)

this entity surface form: Aromanian language

Balkan Latin → ancestorOf → Aromanian ⓘ

Vlach language → hasVariety → Aromanian ⓘ

vlaheşte → relatedTo → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanian language

vlaheşte → lexicalSimilarityWith → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanian language

Eastern Romance → hasMember → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanian language

Eastern Romance → hasMember → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Macedo-Romanian (Aromanian)

Florina (regional unit) → hasMinorityLanguages → Aromanian ⓘ

Metsovo area → languageTradition → Aromanian ⓘ

Balkan Vlachs → useLanguage → Aromanian ⓘ

Balkan Vlachs → areRelatedTo → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanians

Torlakian dialects → arealContactWith → Aromanian ⓘ

Aromãnji → language → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanian language

Koutsovlachs → usedFor → Aromanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aromanians