Editing Romanian language (section)

=== Balkan language area ===
{{see also|Balkan sprachbund|Albanian–Eastern Romance linguistic parallels}}

While most of Romanian grammar and morphology are based on Latin, there are some features that are shared only with other languages of the [[Balkans]] and not found in other Romance languages. The shared features of Romanian and the other languages of the [[balkan sprachbund|Balkan language area]] ([[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], [[Albanian language|Albanian]], Greek, and [[Serbo-Croatian]]) include a suffixed [[Article (grammar)|definite article]], the [[syncretism (linguistics)|syncretism]] of genitive and dative case and the formation of the future and the alternation of infinitive with subjunctive constructions.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mišeska Tomić |first=Olga |url=https://archive.org/details/balkansprachbund00tomi |title=Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features |publisher=Springer |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-4020-4487-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/balkansprachbund00tomi/page/n45 27] |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Schulte |first=Kim |title=Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |year=2009 |isbn=978-3-11-021843-5 |editor-last=Haspelmath |editor-first=Martin |pages=230–259 |chapter=Loanwords in Romanian |editor-last2=Tadmor |editor-first2=Uri}}</ref> According to a well-established scholarly theory, most Balkanisms could be traced back to the development of the Balkan Romance languages; these features were adopted by other languages due to [[language shift]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lindstedt |first=J. |title=Languages in Contact |publisher=Rodopi |year=2000 |isbn=90-4201-322-2 |editor-last=D. G. Gilbers |series=Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, 28 |location=Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA |pages=235 |chapter=Linguistic Balkanization: Contact-induced change by mutual reinforcement |display-editors=etal}}</ref>