Editing Common Romanian (section)

{{Short description|Comparatively reconstructed ancestor of the Romanian languages}}
{{Infobox proto-language
| name        = Common Romanian
| altname     = Proto-Romanian
| target      = [[Eastern Romance languages]]
| region      = [[Balkans]] and part of Eastern Europe
| era         = {{circa|lk=no}} 6th or 7th – 10th or 11th centuries
| familycolor = Indo-European
| ancestor    = [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]]
| ancestor2   = [[Proto-Italic language|Proto-Italic]]
| ancestor3   = [[Proto-Romance language|Proto-Romance]]
}}
{{History of Romania}}

'''Common Romanian''' ({{langx|ro|română comună}}), also known as '''Ancient Romanian''' ({{lang|ro|străromână}}), or '''Proto-Romanian''' ({{lang|ro|protoromână}}), is a comparatively reconstructed [[Romance language]] evolved from [[Vulgar Latin]] and spoken by the ancestors of today's [[Romanians]], [[Aromanians]], [[Megleno-Romanians]], [[Istro-Romanians]] and related [[Balkan]] Latin peoples ([[Vlachs]]) between the 6th or 7th century AD<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1522.pdf|title=A computational perspective on the Romanian dialects|first1=Alina Maria|last1=Ciobanu|first2=Liviu P.|last2=Dinu|journal=Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)|pages=3281–3285|year=2016}}</ref> and the 10th or 11th centuries AD.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/rbph_0035-0818_2010_num_88_3_7806.pdf|title=Romanian|first=Marius|last=Sala|journal=[[Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire]]|volume=88|issue=3|pages=841–872|year=2010|doi=10.3406/rbph.2010.7806}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The evidence for this can be found in the fact that [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Aromanian language|Aromanian]], [[Megleno-Romanian language|Megleno-Romanian]], and [[Istro-Romanian language|Istro-Romanian]] share with each other their main language innovations comparative to Vulgar Latin on one hand, and distinctive from the other Romance languages on the other, according to Romanian linguist [[Marius Sala]].<ref name="dupref">{{Cite book|last=Sala |first=Marius |trans-title=From Latin to Romanian |title=De la Latină la Română] |publisher=Editura Pro Universitaria |year=2012 |isbn=978-606-647-435-1 |page=33 }}</ref>