Editing Romanian language (section)

=== Common Romanian ===
{{Main|Proto-Romanian language}}
{{See also|Slavic superstratum in Romanian|Substrate in Romanian}}
Romanian descended from the [[Latin]] spoken in the [[Roman province]]s of [[Southeastern Europe]]{{sfn|Petrucci|1999|p=4}} north of the [[Jireček Line]] (a hypothetical boundary between the dominance of Latin and Greek influences).

Most scholars agree that two major dialects developed from Common Romanian by the 10th century.{{sfn|Petrucci|1999|p=4}} Daco-Romanian (the official language of Romania and Moldova) and [[Istro-Romanian language|Istro-Romanian]] (a language spoken by no more than 2,000 people in [[Istria]]) descended from the northern dialect.{{sfn|Petrucci|1999|p=4}} Two other languages, [[Aromanian language|Aromanian]] and [[Megleno-Romanian language|Megleno-Romanian]], developed from the southern version of Common Romanian.{{sfn|Petrucci|1999|p=4}} These two languages are now spoken in lands to the south of the [[Jireček Line]].{{sfn|Andreose|Renzi|2013|p=287}}

Of the features that individualize Common Romanian, inherited from Latin or subsequently developed, of particular importance are:<ref name="books.google.ro">Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DlrPPUCQmk4C ''The Grammar of Romanian''], Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-964492-6, page 4</ref>
* appearance of [[Mid central vowel|schwa]] (written as ''ă'' in Romanian) vowel;
* growth of the plural inflectional ending -uri for the neuter gender;
* analytic present conditional (ex: Daco-Romanian {{lang|ro|aș cânta}});
* analytic future with an auxiliary derived from Latin volo (ex: Aromanian {{lang|rup|va s-cântu}});
* enclisis of the definite article (ex. Istro-Romanian {{lang|ruo|câre}} – {{lang|ruo|cârele}});
* nominal declension with two case forms in the singular feminine.