Proto-Romanian
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Fact corner
- 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): lucrare
| INDICATIVE | CONDITIONAL | SUBJUNCTIVE | |||||
| Present | Imperfect | Preterite | Pluperfect | Past | |||
| Sg.1 | lucru | lucram | lucrai | lucrase | aeu lucratu | lucrarem | se lucru |
| Sg.2 | lucri | lucrai | lucrasi | lucrasi | aei lucratu | lucrari | se lucri |
| Sg.3 | lucra | lucra | lucrae | lucrase | ae lucratu | lucrare | se ? |
| Pl.1 | lucramu | lucramu | lucraemu | lucrasemu | aemu lucratu | lucraremu | se lucramu |
| Pl.2 | lucrati | lucrati | lucraeti | lucraseti | aeti lucratu | lucrareti | se lucrati |
| Pl.3 | lucrau | lucrau | lucraere | lucrase | ae lucratu | lucrare | se ? |