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.
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Proto-Romanian
The vocabulary of the Proto-Romanian language was primarily of Latin origin, along with several hundred words considered to be from one or more Paleo-Balkan languages spoken in the area during the times of the Roman occupation. Words of Byzantine Greek origin already entered Vulgar Latin and these in turn passed into Proto-Romanian, perhaps supplemented by additional Byzantine loans [[Citing sources citation needed]]. It was also during the period of Proto-Romanian that Slavonic loanwords began to enter the language, Slavonic-speaking groups having overrun the Balkans by the 6th Century and 7th Century AD.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.Modern Romanian reforms
Contemporary Romanian
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