Editing Romanian language (section)

=== Slavic influence ===
{{Main|Slavic influence on Romanian}}
Slavic influence on Romanian is especially noticeable in its vocabulary, with words of Slavic origin constituting about 10–15% of modern Romanian lexicon,<ref name="VRLR" /><ref>{{citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Schulte |first1=Kim |title=Loanwords in Romanian }}{{dead link|date=October 2019}}, published in {{Cite book |last1=Martin Haspelmath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HnKeVbwTwyYC&pg=PA243 |title=Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook |last2=Uri Tadmor |date=22 December 2009 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-021844-2 |page=243}}</ref> and with further influences in its phonetics, morphology and syntax. The greater part of its Slavic vocabulary comes from [[Old Church Slavonic]],<ref name="Macrea">{{Cite book |last=Macrea |first=Dimitrie |title=Probleme de lingvistică română |publisher=Editura Științifică |year=1961 |location=Bucharest |page=32 |language=ro |chapter=Originea și structura limbii române (7–45)}}</ref><ref name="Dindelegan">{{Cite book |title=The Grammar of Romanian |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2013 |isbn=9780199644926 |editor-last=Pană Dindelegan |editor-first=Gabriela |edition=1st |pages=3}}</ref> which was the official written language of [[Wallachia]] and [[Moldavia]] from the 14th to the 18th century (although not understood by most people), as well as the [[Sacred language|liturgical language]] of the [[Romanian Orthodox Church]].<ref name="Hitchins2014" /><ref name="HillAlboiu2016">{{Cite book |last1=Virginia Hill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6VU0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PR15 |title=Verb Movement and Clause Structure in Old Romanian |last2=Gabriela Alboiu |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-19-873650-9 |page=xv}}</ref> As a result, much Romanian vocabulary dealing with religion, ritual, and hierarchy is Slavic.<ref name="Comrie2009">{{Cite book |last=Bernard Comrie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DR-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA266 |title=The World's Major Languages |date=13 January 2009 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26156-7 |page=266}}</ref><ref name="Hitchins2014">{{Cite book |last=Keith Hitchins |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j1ytAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |title=A Concise History of Romania |date=20 February 2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-87238-6 |page=19 |author-link=Keith Hitchins}}</ref> The number of high-frequency Slavic-derived words is also believed to indicate contact or cohabitation with [[South Slavs|South Slavic]] tribes from around the 6th century, though it is disputed where this took place (see [[Origin of the Romanians]]).<ref name="Hitchins2014" /> Words borrowed in this way tend to be more vernacular (compare ''[[wikt:sfârși|sfârși]]'', "to end", with ''[[wikt:săvârși|săvârși]]'', "to commit").<ref name="Comrie2009" />  It has also been argued that Slavic borrowing was a key factor in the development of {{IPAblink|ɨ}} (''î'' and ''â'') as a separate [[phoneme]].<ref name="Renwick2014">{{Cite book |last=Margaret E. L. Renwick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDToBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |title=The Phonetics and Phonology of Contrast: The Case of the Romanian Vowel System |date=2014 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-036277-0 |pages=44–5}}</ref>