History
Several hundred years after the Roman Empire's dominance of the region, the local form of Vulgar Latin developed into Proto-Romanian, a language which had most of the features of modern Romanian. Probably due to foreign invasions (see Romania in the Dark Ages) and the migration of Vlach shepherds (see Vlachs in Wallachia), between 800 AD and 1200 AD Proto-Romanian split into four separate languages:
- Daco-Romanian (called Romanian in Romania and most countries, but officially known as Vlach in Serbia and sometimes as Moldovan in Moldova);
- Aromanian (called Vlachika in Greece, officially known as Vlas in Serbia, and also as Aroman);
- Megleno-Romanian (also known as Moglenit in former Yugoslavia and in Bulgaria, or Megleniotika in Greece) ;
- Istro-Romanian (also known as Istrian in Italy, and as Ćićiski or Ćiribirski in former Yugoslavia).
Read more about this topic: Eastern Romance Languages
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