Langenesis

Indo-European family

Aromanian

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Aromanian (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → … → Vulgar Latin → Proto-Romanian → Aromanian.

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Speakers
250K (250,000)
ISO 639-3
rup
Glottocode
arom1237

Spoken in Greece, Albania, North Macedonia and elsewhere in the Balkans. Endangered; estimates vary widely.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
  3. Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
  4. Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE
  5. Latin100 BCE – 300 CE
  6. Vulgar Latin300 CE – 800 CE
  7. Proto-Romanianc. 600 CE – 1200 CE
  8. Aromanianc. 1000 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Romanian.

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