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.
this entity surface form:
Latin Balkans