Eastern Romance languages
| Eastern Romance | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Southeast Europe Eastern Europe |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European |
Early forms | |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | east2714 (Eastern Romance) |
Regions inhabited nowadays by Eastern Romance-speakers | |
The Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance languages. The group comprises the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian), the Aromanian language and two other related minor languages, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian.
The extinct Dalmatian language (otherwise included in the Central Romance group) is sometimes included as part of the Eastern Romance group, being considered a bridge between Italian and Romanian. Some classifications of the Romance languages consider Eastern and Central Romance to form a clade (often simply called "Eastern Romance", with "Eastern Romance proper" referred to as Balkan or Daco-Romance), but nowadays Central Romance are more often grouped with the Western Romance languages as "Italo-Western".