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Armãnji, Rrãmãnji | |
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| Total population | |
| c. 250,000 (Aromanian-speakers)[3] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Greece | 39,855 (1951 census);[4] estimated up to 300,000 (2002)[5] |
 Romania | 26,500 (2006 estimate)[6] |
 North Macedonia | 8,714 (2021 census)[7] |
 Albania | 2,459 (2023 census)[8] |
 Bulgaria | 2,000–3,000 (2014 estimate)[9] |
 Serbia | 327 (2022 census)[10] |
| Languages | |
| Aromanian, also languages of their home countries | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Romance-speaking peoples; (most notably Istro-Romanians, Megleno-Romanians and Romanians) | |
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The Aromanians (Aromanian: Armãnji, Rrãmãnji)[11] are an ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language.[12] They traditionally live in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, northern and central Greece, and North Macedonia, and can currently be found in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, south-western and eastern North Macedonia, northern and central Greece, southern Serbia, and south-eastern Romania (Northern Dobruja). An Aromanian diaspora living outside these places also exists. The Aromanians are known by several other names, such as "Vlachs" or "Macedo-Romanians"[13][14][15] (sometimes used to also refer to the Megleno-Romanians).[16]
The term "Vlachs" is used in Greece and in other countries to refer to the Aromanians, with this term having been more widespread in the past to refer to all Romance-speaking peoples of the Balkan Peninsula and Carpathian Mountains region (Southeast Europe).[17]
Their vernacular, Aromanian, is an Eastern Romance language very similar to Romanian, which has many slightly varying dialects of its own.[18] Aromanian is considered to have developed from Common Romanian, a common stage of all the Eastern Romance varieties[19] that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken by Paleo-Balkan peoples after the Romanization of the Balkan area that fell under the Latin sphere of influence.[20] The Aromanian language shares many common features with Albanian, Bulgarian and Greek; however, although it has many loanwords from Greek, Slavic, and Turkish, its lexicon remains majority Romance in origin.[21]
- ^ Minahan, James B. (2016). Encyclopedia of stateless nations: ethnic and national groups around the world (2nd ed.). ABC-CLIO. p. 38. ISBN 9781610699549.
- ^ Ene, Maria Camelia (2016). "Paftaua, tipuri de decorații și simboluri. Accesorii din patrimoniul Muzeului Municipiului București" (PDF). Materiale de Istorie și Muzeografie (in Romanian). 30. Bucharest: Bucharest Municipality Museum: 136.
- ^ Puig, Lluis Maria de (17 January 1997). "Report: Aromanians". Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. Doc. 7728.
- ^ According to INTEREG – quoted by Eurominority Archived 3 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine: Aromanians in Greece Archived 19 May 2005 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kahl 2002, p. 153.
- ^ Gatej, Iuliana (8 December 2006). "Aromânii vor statut minoritar". Cotidianul (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 9 March 2012.
- ^ "Попис на населението, домаќинствата и становите во Република Северна Македонија, 2021 – прв сет на податоци" (PDF). p. 8. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ^ "Population and Housing Census 2023" (PDF). Instituti i Statistikës (INSTAT).
- ^ Constantin, Marin (2014). "The ethno-cultural belongingness of Aromanians, Vlachs, Catholics, and Lipovans/Old Believers in Romania and Bulgaria (1990–2012)" (PDF). Revista Română de Sociologie. 25 (3–4): 255–285.
- ^ "Становништво према националној припадности" (in Serbian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ^ Kahl 2002, p. 145.
- ^ Across the Danube: Southeastern Europeans and Their Travelling Identities (17th–19th C.). Brill. 2016. p. 30. ISBN 978-90-04-33544-8.
The Aromanians (Vlachs) are a Latin-speaking ethnic group native to the southern Balkans.
- ^ Benevedes, Eli; Lally, Owen; Li, Hung-En; Perlee, Abigail; Piombino, Eileen (2021). Investigating the Impacts of Earthquakes on Ethnic and Religious Groups: Bucharest, Romania (PDF) (Thesis). Worcester Polytechnic Institute. pp. 1–63.
- ^ Tudorancea, Radu (2007). "An analysis of the Macedo-Romanian issue within the Romanian–Greek relations during the first decade of the twentieth century (1900–1926)" (PDF). Euro-Atlantic Studies (11): 91–97.
- ^ Vrabie, Emil (1993). "Aromanian etymologies". General Linguistics. 33 (4): 212–219. ProQuest 1301510711.
- ^ Țîrcomnicu, Emil (2009). "Some topics of the traditional wedding customs of the Macedo–Romanians (Aromanians and Megleno–Romanians)". Romanian Journal of Population Studies. 3 (3): 141–152.
- ^ "Vlach – European ethnic group". Britannica.com. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- ^ "Romanian language". Archived from the original on 20 March 2006. Retrieved 16 May 2006.
- ^ Isac, Daniela (2024). Definiteness in Balkan Romance. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780198865704.
The term 'Balkan Romance' is used to designate a group of languages including Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian and Megleno-Romanian.1 Even though the exact historical links between these languages are still unclear (...), it is commonly accepted that they have a common ancestor and hence form a coherent family. 1 Alternative names for Balkan Romance are Daco-Romance and Eastern Romance.
- ^ Winnifrith 2002, p. 115.
- ^ James Minahan (2002). Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: A–C. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-313-32109-2. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
Aromanian shares many common features with Bulgarian, Greek, and Albanian, but the lexical composition, though rich in Greek, Slavic, and Turkish borrowings, remains basically of the Romance type.