Balkan Latin

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Balkan Latin is the hypothesized regional variety of Vulgar Latin once spoken in the Balkans, from which the Eastern Romance languages, including Aromanian, are believed to have evolved.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Latin Balkans 1

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Balkan Romance substrate
historical language variety
hypothesized regional variety of Vulgar Latin
alternativeName Proto-Eastern Romance (in some scholarship)
ancestorOf Aromanian
Eastern Romance languages
Istro-Romanian
Megleno-Romanian
Romanian language
surface form: Romanian
developedFrom Vulgar Latin
hasLinguisticFeature Balkan Sprachbund influence
development toward postposed definite articles (in descendants)
innovations shared by Eastern Romance languages
reduction of Latin case system
hasUncertainty chronological limits
exact geographic extent
internal dialectal differentiation
influencedBy Greek
Slavic languages
local Paleo-Balkan languages
languageFamily Romance languages
partOf Eastern Romance languages
surface form: Eastern Romance continuum
reconstructedBy historical linguistics
reconstructedFrom comparative evidence of Eastern Romance languages
regionIncludes Fore-Balkan
surface form: Balkan interior

Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire
relatedConcept Balkan Sprachbund
Eastern Romance languages
Vulgar Latin
spokenIn Balkans
status not directly attested
reconstructed
studiedInField Balkan linguistics
Romance linguistics
subfamilyOf Italo-Western and Eastern Romance branch debate
usedInPeriod Early Middle Ages
Late Antiquity

Referenced by (4)

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

Aromanian developedFrom Balkan Latin
Eastern Romance developedFrom Balkan Latin
Vlach language developedFrom Balkan Latin
this entity surface form: Latin Balkans