Aromanian
E15960
Aromanian is an Eastern Romance language spoken by the Aromanian people in the Balkans, closely related to Romanian but distinct in its history, vocabulary, and phonology.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aromanian canonical | 10 |
| Aromanian language | 7 |
| Aromanians | 5 |
| Farsherot Aromanian | 1 |
| Gramostean Aromanian | 1 |
| Macedo-Romanian | 1 |
| Macedo-Romanian (Aromanian) | 1 |
| Pindean Aromanian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T135396 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Aromanian Context triple: [Romanian language, hasDialect, Aromanian]
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A.
Romanian language
Romanian is a Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova, notable for preserving many features of Latin while incorporating significant Slavic and Balkan influences.
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B.
Romani
The Romani are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group of Indian origin, now widely dispersed across Europe and beyond, known for their distinct language, culture, and history of marginalization.
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C.
Romani language
The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language traditionally spoken by Romani communities across Europe and beyond, featuring numerous dialects influenced by the languages of the regions where its speakers live.
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D.
Venetic language
The Venetic language was an extinct Indo-European tongue once spoken by the ancient Veneti people in northeastern Italy and nearby regions.
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E.
Albanian language
The Albanian language is the unique modern representative of its own branch within the Indo-European family, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, and neighboring regions of the Balkans.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Aromanian Target entity description: Aromanian is an Eastern Romance language spoken by the Aromanian people in the Balkans, closely related to Romanian but distinct in its history, vocabulary, and phonology.
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A.
Romanian language
Romanian is a Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova, notable for preserving many features of Latin while incorporating significant Slavic and Balkan influences.
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B.
Romani
The Romani are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group of Indian origin, now widely dispersed across Europe and beyond, known for their distinct language, culture, and history of marginalization.
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C.
Romani language
The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language traditionally spoken by Romani communities across Europe and beyond, featuring numerous dialects influenced by the languages of the regions where its speakers live.
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D.
Venetic language
The Venetic language was an extinct Indo-European tongue once spoken by the ancient Veneti people in northeastern Italy and nearby regions.
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E.
Albanian language
The Albanian language is the unique modern representative of its own branch within the Indo-European family, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, and neighboring regions of the Balkans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Romance language
ⓘ
Romance language ⓘ Vlach language ⓘ minority language ⓘ |
| ancestor | Vulgar Latin ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Istro-Romanian
ⓘ
Megleno-Romanian ⓘ Romanian ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Balkan Latin ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | definitely endangered (in several countries) ⓘ |
| family |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| Glottocode | arom1237 ⓘ |
| group |
Romance languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Romance languages
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Armãneashce (autonym)
ⓘ
Aromanian ⓘ
surface form:
Macedo-Romanian
Vlach (in some contexts) ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Aromanian
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Farsherot Aromanian
Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Gramostean Aromanian
Moscopolean Aromanian ⓘ Aromanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pindean Aromanian
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| hasFeature |
distinct phonology from standard Romanian
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distinct vocabulary from standard Romanian ⓘ preserves Latin neuter gender in a distinct way ⓘ shows influence from Albanian vocabulary ⓘ shows influence from South Slavic languages ⓘ shows strong influence from Greek vocabulary ⓘ stress-accented language ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Cyrillic script (historically and locally)
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Greek script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ |
| isNot | dialect of Romanian (in most linguistic classifications) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | rup ⓘ |
| recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn |
Albania
ⓘ
North Macedonia ⓘ Romania ⓘ |
| region | Balkans ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Aromanian
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Aromanians
|
| spokenIn |
Albania
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Bulgaria ⓘ Greece ⓘ North Macedonia ⓘ Romania ⓘ Serbia ⓘ diaspora communities ⓘ |
| subfamily | Romance languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local media and publications
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oral tradition and folk songs ⓘ religious services in some communities ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Aromanian Description of subject: Aromanian is an Eastern Romance language spoken by the Aromanian people in the Balkans, closely related to Romanian but distinct in its history, vocabulary, and phonology.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.