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==A difficult research topic== Numerous language studies and research papers discuss the problems of the Substrate in Romanian, considered by some to be the most controversial and difficult part of Romanian language since its nature and development could explain the evolution of Latin to Romanian.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Brâncuș |first=Grigore |trans-title=Introduction to the History of Romanian Language |title=Introducere în istoria limbii române] |publisher=Editura Fundaţiei România de Mâine |year=2005 |isbn=973-725-219-5 |page=43 }}</ref> Some linguists (including Sorin Olteanu, [[Sorin Paliga]] and Ivan Duridanov) propose that a number of words presented as [[borrowing (linguistics)|borrowings]] from a [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] language or from [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] in standard literature may have actually developed from reconstructed (not attested) words of local [[Indo-European languages]] and they were borrowed from Romanian by the neighboring languages. Though the substratum status of many Romanian words is not much disputed, their status as [[list of reconstructed Dacian words|Dacian words]] is controversial, some more than others since there are no significant surviving written examples of the [[Dacian language]]. Many of the possible pre-Roman lexical items of Romanian have [[Albanian language|Albanian]] parallels, and if they are in fact substratum words [[cognates]] with the Albanian ones, and not [[loanwords]] from Albanian, it indicates that the substrate language of Romanian may have been on the same Indo-European branch as Albanian.
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