Vlachs

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Vlach (English:

Balkan peninsula) and north of the Danube.[2]

Although it has also been used to name present-day

Timok Romanians.[3] The term also became a synonym in the Balkans for the social category of shepherds.[4] and was also used for non-Romance-speaking peoples, in recent times in the western Balkans derogatively.[5] The term is also used to refer to the ethnographic group of Moravian Vlachs who speak a Slavic language but originate from Romanians, as well as for Morlachs and Istro-Romanians.[6]

Currently, Eastern Romance-speaking communities are estimated at 26–30 million people worldwide (including the Romanian diaspora and Moldovan diaspora).[citation needed]

Etymology

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