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'''Vlach''', '''''(rumînjeašće/ljimba rumînjaskă)'''''<ref>http://www.nacionalnisavetvlaha.rs The National Council of the Vlachs</ref> <ref>http://www.nacionalnisavetvlaha.rs/reagovanjabalasevic2.html The National Council of the Vlachs</ref>, ({{lang-sr|влашки / vlaški}}) are the terms used to designate the language spoken by the ].<ref> , 2011</ref>
'''Vlach''', ''''']''''',<ref name="bbc.co.uk">http://www.bbc.co.uk/romanian/news/story/2007/08/070817_vlahi_serbia_minoritate.shtml</ref> or '''Timok Romanian''' (]: ''limba română'',<ref>Website of the </ref> meaning "language of Romans", ''rumâneşte / rumâneşce'', {{lang-ro|Româna timoceană}}; {{lang-sr|Влашки / Vlaški}}) are the terms used to designate the ]<ref>Gustav Weigand, ''Linguistischer Atlas des dacorumänischen Sprachgebiets'', 1909, Leipzig: Barth</ref><ref>Petru Neiescu, Eugen Beltechi, Nicolae Mocanu, ''Atlas lingvistic al regiunii Valea Timocului – Contribuţii la atlasul lingvistic al graiurilor româneşti dintre Morava, Dunăre şi Timoc'', Cluj-Napoca, 2006</ref><ref>Slavoljub Gacović, ''Od Rimljana i latinskog do Rumuna Timočana i rumunskog, Nacionalni savet vlaške nacionalne manjine'', Bor, 2008</ref> spoken by the ].<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/>


==Status== ==Status==
Serbian statistics list Vlach and Romanian languages separately depending of what people declared in census. This however, does not mean that Serbian government have official position whether Vlach and Romanian are separate languages. ] hadn't assigned it a separate language code in the ] standard. In the 2002 census, 40,054 people in Serbia declared themselves ethnic ] and 54,818 people declared themselves native speakers of the Vlach language. Serbian statistics list Vlach as minority language in Serbia and it's recognized by the Serbian Law. The Vlach language have official status, but it is not standardized. In the 2011 census, 35,330<ref>http://media.popis2011.stat.rs/2011/prvi_rezultati.pdf Serbian Preliminary 2011 Census Results</ref> people in Serbia declared themselves ethnic ] and 43,095<ref>http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/userFiles/file/Aktuelnosti/Saopstenje%20za%20javnost%20veroispovest%20maternji%20jezik%20i%20nac%20%20pripadnost.pdf Serbian 2011 Census Results 21. 02. 2013</ref> people declared themselves native speakers of the Vlach language. The declared Vlach speakers are mostly concentrated in Eastern Serbia, mainly in the ] region.


The "National Council of Vlachs" listed Serbian in its statute as the official language of the Vlach minority until the standardization of the Vlach language. <ref>http://www.nacionalnisavetvlaha.rs Declaration of the Vlach National Council</ref>
The Vlach language does not have any official status and it is not standardized,<ref name="Danas">'']'' , 19 March 2007</ref> thus some members of Vlach community ask for official usage of standard Romanian in the areas inhabited by Vlachs until the standardization of the Vlach language.<ref name="Danas"/>

For historical reasons connected with the multicultural region of ], Romanian is listed as a separate language in latest Serbian census, the number of its speakers was 34,515, while 34,576 people declared themselves as ethnic ]. The declared Vlach speakers are mostly concentrated in eastern Serbia, mainly in the ] region and adjacent areas, while declared Romanian speakers are mostly concentrated in Vojvodina.

According to some sources in the media (among others ], ] and ]), Serbia recognised Romanian as the native language of the Vlachs, through the act of confirmation of the ''National Council of the Vlach National Minority'' in August 2007.<ref name="BBC"> (''"Vlahii din Serbia recunoscuţi ca minoritate naţională"''), published by BBC on 17 August 2007: "Vlachs were finally recognised as a national minority and the Romanian language was accepted as their native language"</ref><ref> (''"Limba română recunoscută drept limbă maternă în Serbia"''], news report made by Ştirile ] on 19 August 2007</ref><ref> (''"Serbia a recunoscut că «vlahii» din Timoc vorbesc româneşte"''), published in ], 3 August 2007</ref>

The "National Council of Vlachs in Serbia" listed Romanian in its statute as the language of the Vlach minority.<ref name="BBC"/>

==Features==
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Its two main variants, '''Ungurean''' and '''Țăran''', are subordonated forms of the Romanian varieties spoken in ] and ], respectively.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} The speakers have been isolated from Romania and their speech did not keep up with the neologisms (for some abstract notions, as well as technological, political and scientific concepts) borrowed by the Romanian speakers on the other shore of the Danube from French and Italian and as such, they're using Serbian counterparts instead, as Serbian has been the language of education for nearly two centuries.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}


==Name== ==Name==
The term ''Vlach'' is the English transcription of the Serbian term for this language (''vlaški''), while ''Romanian'' or ''Roumanian'' is the English transcription of its Vlach/Romanian counterpart (''român/rumân'').<ref></ref><ref>: "We all know that we call ourselves in Romanian Romanians and in Serbian Vlachs."</ref> The term ''Vlach'' is the English transcription of the Serbian term for this language (''vlaški''). The term Vlach language(s) is also often used to refer to ] in general, which includes Romanian. There are considerable differences between these Vlach languages (the Greek, Macedonian and Albanian Vlachs, versus the Vlachs of Istria, versus the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia) and untutored native speakers have difficulties understanding each other.

For example, the National Council representing Vlach minority is called:<ref name="consiliu">Website of the </ref>
*''Consiliul Naţional al Minorităţii Naţionale '''Rumâne''''' in Vlach/Romanian,
*Национални савет '''Влашке''' националне мањине, ''Nacionalni Savet '''Vlaške''' Nacionalne Manjine'' in ],
* and ''National Council of '''Vlach (Roumanian)''' National Minority'' in English.

Further on, the Romanian/Vlach Democratic Party of Serbia is called in Romanian/Vlach ''Partidul Democrat al '''Rumânilor''' din Sârbia'' and '''''Vlaška''' Demokratska Stranka'' ('''Влашка''' демократска странка) in Serbian. This happens also with the others institutions of the Vlach minority.

The term Vlach language(s) is also often used to refer to ] in general, which includes Romanian. There are considerable differences between these Vlach languages (the Greek, Macedonian and Albanian Vlachs, versus the Vlachs of Istria, versus the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia who are closest to Romanians) and untutored native speakers have difficulties understanding each other.


==Usage in media== ==Usage in media==
Radio Zaječar and Radio Pomoravlje broadcasting programme in the Romanian (Vlach) language. Radio Zaječar and Radio Pomoravlje broadcasting programme in the Vlach language.


==Maps== ==Maps==
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Vlach, (rumînjeašće/ljimba rumînjaskă) , (Template:Lang-sr) are the terms used to designate the language spoken by the Vlachs of Serbia.

Status

Serbian statistics list Vlach as minority language in Serbia and it's recognized by the Serbian Law. The Vlach language have official status, but it is not standardized. In the 2011 census, 35,330 people in Serbia declared themselves ethnic Vlachs and 43,095 people declared themselves native speakers of the Vlach language. The declared Vlach speakers are mostly concentrated in Eastern Serbia, mainly in the Timočka Krajina region.

The "National Council of Vlachs" listed Serbian in its statute as the official language of the Vlach minority until the standardization of the Vlach language.

Name

The term Vlach is the English transcription of the Serbian term for this language (vlaški). The term Vlach language(s) is also often used to refer to Eastern Romance languages in general, which includes Romanian. There are considerable differences between these Vlach languages (the Greek, Macedonian and Albanian Vlachs, versus the Vlachs of Istria, versus the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia) and untutored native speakers have difficulties understanding each other.

Usage in media

Radio Zaječar and Radio Pomoravlje broadcasting programme in the Vlach language.

Maps

  • The vocabulary in Central Serbia. Researches made by Gustav Weigand:

See also

References

  1. http://www.nacionalnisavetvlaha.rs The National Council of the Vlachs
  2. http://www.nacionalnisavetvlaha.rs/reagovanjabalasevic2.html The National Council of the Vlachs
  3. "Speak Vlach!", 2011
  4. http://media.popis2011.stat.rs/2011/prvi_rezultati.pdf Serbian Preliminary 2011 Census Results
  5. http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/userFiles/file/Aktuelnosti/Saopstenje%20za%20javnost%20veroispovest%20maternji%20jezik%20i%20nac%20%20pripadnost.pdf Serbian 2011 Census Results 21. 02. 2013
  6. http://www.nacionalnisavetvlaha.rs Declaration of the Vlach National Council
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