Romanian lexis

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The lexis of the Romanian language (or Daco-Romanian), a Romance language, has changed over the centuries as the language evolved from Vulgar Latin, to Proto-Romanian, to medieval, modern and contemporary Romanian.

Contents 1 Proto-Romanian 2 Medieval Romanian 3 Modern Romanian reforms 4 Contemporary Romanian 5 See also

[edit] Proto-Romanian

[edit] Medieval Romanian

By the later Middle Ages, a great amount of Slavonic loans had already entered Romanian. Byzantine Greek, Bulgarian, Turkish (and through Turkish, Arabic and Persian), Hungarian, German and other languages further contributed loanwords into Romanian.

[edit] Modern Romanian reforms

[edit] Contemporary Romanian

[edit] See also

• Eastern Romance substratum
• List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin
• Romanian Academy

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