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) cca. 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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Famous quotes containing the word people:
““The wonder is I didn’t see at once.
I never noticed it from here before.
I must be wonted to it that’s the reason.
The little graveyard where my people are!...””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The first place he went into was the Royal Exchange .... where men of all ages and all nations were assembled, with no other view than to barter for interest. The countenances of most of the people showed they were filled with anxiety; some indeed appeared pleased, but yet it was with a mixture of fear.... [David] resolved to stay no longer in a place where riches were esteemed goodness, and deceit, low cunning, and giving up all things to the love of gain were thought wisdom.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)