People
The Eastern Romance languages, sometimes known as the Vlach languages, are a group of Romance languages that developed in south-eastern Europe from the local eastern variant of Vulgar Latin. There is no official data from Balkan countries such as Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Serbia.
- Daco-Romanians (Romanians proper) c. 23,623,890, speaking the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian), known by that name due to their location in the territory of ancient Dacia, who live in:
- Romania – 16,869,816 (2011 Census)
- Moldova – 2,815,000 (2004 Census)
- Ukraine – 409,600; in southern Bessarabia northern Bukovina and between Nistrul and Bug rivers (2001 Census)
- Serbia – 35,330 (2011 census)
- Hungary – 7,995 (2001 Census)
- Bulgaria – 3,584 persons counted as Vlachs (may include Aromanians) and 891 as Romanians in 2011.
- Aromanians up to 500,000 live in:
- Greece – 50,000, mainly in the Pindus Mountains (Greece, like France, does not recognise any ethnic divisions, so there are no statistics kept and the Aromanians of Greece self-identify as Greeks and are accepted as such by the other Greeks. See Demographics of Greece)
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- Albania – 100,000-to-200,000
- Romania – 26,500
- Macedonia – 20,000
- Megleno-Romanians speaking the Megleno-Romanian language, living in Greece and Macedonia – 5,000.
- Istro-Romanians (speaking the Istro-Romanian language) living in Croatia, with a population of 1,200, but with fewer than 200 acknowledged native speakers.
- Morlachs – in the 1991 Croatian census 22 people declared themselves Morlachs.
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