Eastern Romance comprises
Romanian (or Daco-Romanian),
Aromanian,
Megleno-Romanian and
Istro-Romanian, according to the most widely accepted classification of the Romance languages. The four languages are sometimes labelled as dialects of Romanian and developed from a common ancestor known as
Common Romanian. They are surrounded by non-Romance languages.
Judaeo-Spanish (or Ladino) is also spoken in the Balkan Peninsula, but it is rarely listed among the other Romance languages of the region because it is rather an
Iberian Romance language that developed as a Jewish dialect of
Old Spanish in the far west of Europe, and it began to be spoken widely in the Balkans only after the influx of Ladino-speaking refugees into the
Ottoman Empire in the 16th century.
Internal classification Within the
Glottolog database, the languages are classified as follows: • Eastern Romance •
Aromanian • Northern Romanian • Eastern Romanian •
Megleno-Romanian •
Daco-Romanian •
Istro-Romanian Peter R. Petrucci, by contrast, states that Common Romanian had developed into two major dialects by the 10th century, and that Daco-Romanian and Istro-Romanian are descended from the northern dialect, while Megleno-Romanian and Aromanian are descended from the southern dialect. • Eastern Romance • Northern Romanian •
Daco-Romanian •
Istro-Romanian • Southern Romanian •
Aromanian •
Megleno-Romanian ==Samples of Eastern Romance languages==