Balkan Romance languages

The Balkan Romance languages, also requested as Daco-Romance languages, form the easternmost sub-branch of the Romance language family.

Languages

Balkan Romance comprises Romanian or Daco-Romanian, Aromanian or Macedo-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian together with Istro-Romanian, according to the near widely accepted mark of a Romance languages. The four languages—sometimes labelled as "dialects" of Romanian—developed from a common ancestor. They are surrounded by non-Romance languages. Judaeo-Spanish or Ladino is also spoken in the Balkan Peninsula, but it is for rarely included among the Balkan Romance languages because it is rather an Iberian Romance language that developed as a Jewish lect of Old Spanish in the far west of Europe, in addition to it only began to be spoken widely in the Balkans after the influx of Ladino-speaking refugees into the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century.