The lexis of the Romanian language (or Daco-Romanian), a Romance language, has changed over the centuries as the language evolved from Vulgar Latin, to Proto-Romanian, to medieval, modern and contemporary Romanian.
[edit] Proto-Romanian
[edit] Medieval Romanian
By the later Middle Ages, a great number of Slavic loanwords had already entered Romanian. Byzantine Greek, Bulgarian, Turkish (and through Turkish, Arabic and Persian), Hungarian, German and other languages further contributed loanwords into Romanian.
[edit] Modern Romanian reforms
[edit] Contemporary Romanian
[edit] See also
