Proto-Romanian
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- Language: Proto-Romanian
- Alternate names: Common Romanian, româna comună, Ancient Romanian, străromâna
- SIL-code: -
- Language family: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Eastern
- Number of speakers: Extinct
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Proto-Romanian is a hypothetical language considered to have been spoken by the ancestors of today's Romanians and related Balkan Latin peoples (Vlachs), between the 7th and the 9th century.
Proto-Romanian already had a structure very distinct from the other Romance languages, with major differences in grammar, morphology and phonology and already was a member of the Balkan linguistic union. Most of its features can be found in the modern Eastern Romance languages. It already contained around a hundred loans from Slavic languages, including words such as "trup" (body), as well as some Greek language loans via Vulgar Latin (Eastern).
The verb
Sample verb (1st conjugation): cercetare
| INDICATIVE | CONDITIONAL | SUBJUNCTIVE | |||||
| Present | Imperfect | Preterite | Pluperfect | Past | |||
| Sg.1 | cercetu | cercetam | cercetai | cercetase | aeu cercetatu | cercetarem | se cercetu |
| Sg.2 | cerceti | cercetai | cercetasi | cercetasi | aei cercetatu | cercetari | se cerceti |
| Sg.3 | cerceta | cerceta | cercetae | cercetase | ae cercetatu | cercetare | se ? |
| Pl.1 | cercetamu | cercetamu | cercetaemu | cercetasemu | aemu cercetatu | cercetaremu | se cercetamu |
| Pl.2 | cercetati | cercetati | cercetaeti | cercetaseti | aeti cercetatu | cercetareti | se cercetati |
| Pl.3 | cercetau | cercetau | cercetaere | cercetase | ae cercetatu | cercetare | se ? |