Eastern Romance

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Eastern Romance is a branch of the Romance language family that includes languages such as Romanian, Aromanian, and related varieties spoken primarily in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Romance canonical 6
Romance Europe 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Romance languages
language subgroup
developedFrom Balkan Latin
Vulgar Latin
geographicDistribution Balkan Mountains
surface form: Balkan mountains region

Carpathian Mountains
surface form: Carpathian region

Balkans
surface form: Southeastern Europe
hasCharacteristic SVO basic word order
influence from Albanian
influence from Greek
influence from Slavic languages
palatalization of velar consonants before front vowels
postposed definite article
reduction of Latin case system
use of periphrastic verb forms
hasMember Aromanian
surface form: Aromanian language

Romanian language
surface form: Daco-Romanian language

Istro-Romanian
surface form: Istro-Romanian dialects

Istro-Romanian
surface form: Istro-Romanian language

Aromanian
surface form: Macedo-Romanian (Aromanian)

Meglenitic dialects
Megleno-Romanian
surface form: Megleno-Romanian language

Romanian language
surface form: Moldovan Romanian

Romanian language
Thessalian Aromanian dialects
Vlach language
surface form: Vlax Romanian varieties
historicalRegion Balkans
surface form: Balkan Peninsula

Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire
linguisticAncestorOf modern Aromanian language
modern Istro-Romanian language
modern Megleno-Romanian language
modern Romanian language
partOf Italic languages
sharesFeatureWith Balkan Sprachbund
spokenIn Albania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Eastern Europe
Greece
Hungary
Moldova
North Macedonia
Romania
Serbia
Ukraine
Balkans
surface form: the Balkans
subclassOf Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages

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: Eastern Romance
Description of subject: Eastern Romance is a branch of the Romance language family that includes languages such as Romanian, Aromanian, and related varieties spoken primarily in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

Referenced by (7)

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

Megleno-Romanian languageGroup Eastern Romance
Dalmatian language languageBranch Eastern Romance
Meglen region historicalLanguageFamily Eastern Romance
Vlach language languageBranch Eastern Romance
Luxembourg region hasCulturalInfluenceFrom Eastern Romance
this entity surface form: Romance Europe
Western Romance contrastedWith Eastern Romance
Balkan Vlachs languageBranch Eastern Romance