yang mengacu kepada populasi modern yang menuturkan bahasa-bahasa tersebut di [[Rumania]] dan [[Moldova]] serta bagian selatan [[Semenanjung Balkan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/631511/Vlach|title=Vlach}}</ref> Vlach untuk pertama kalinya diidentifikasi dan dideskripsikan pada abad ke-11 oleh [[George Kedrenos]].
Orang-orang Vlach kemungkinan berasalbesar darimerupakan keturunan orang-orang [[Dacia]].<ref>Fine 1991, p. ?: "Traditionally scholars have seen the Dacians as ancestors of the modern Rumanians and Vlachs."</ref> Menurut beberapa ahli, [[rumpun bahasa Roman Timur]] membuktikan bahwa orang-orang [[Trako-Roman]] berhasil bertahan di cekungan Donau hilir selama [[Periode Migrasi]],<ref>According to Cornelia Bodea, Ştefan Pascu, Liviu Constantinescu: "''România: Atlas Istorico-geografic''", Academia Română 1996, {{ISBN|973-27-0500-0}}, chap. II, "Historical landmarks", hlm. 50 (teks Inggris), the survival of the [[Thraco-Roman|Thraco-Romans]]s in the Lower [[Danube]] basin during the [[Migration period]] is an obvious fact: Thraco-Romans haven't vanished in the soil & Vlachs haven't appeared after 1000 years by spontaneous generation.<!-- This polemical remark is a blatant straw man, though – nobody claims something so obviously nonsensical. The main alternative hypothesis says that the Romanised Dacians north of the Danube were Slavicised in the Migration Period, while Vlachs immigrated from south of the Danube in the Middle Ages, re-Romanising the region. --></ref> walaupun populasi Balkan barat yang juga disebut "Vlach" memiliki keturunandarah [[Iliria]] yang telah mengalami romanisasi.<ref>Badlands-Borderland: A History of Southern Albania/Northern Epirus [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover) by T.J. Winnifruth, {{ISBN|0-7156-3201-9}}, 2003, page 44: "Romanized Illyrians, the ancestors of the modern Vlachs".</ref>
Hampir semua negara di Eropa tengah dan tenggara memiliki minoritas Vlach atau Rumania, seperti di [[orang Rumania di HongariaHungaria|HongariaHungaria]], [[orang Rumania di Ukraina|Ukraina]], [[orang Rumania di Serbia|Serbia]], [[Vlach Kroasia|Kroasia]], dan [[Vlach Bulgaria|Bulgaria]]. Di negara-negara lain (seperti [[Vlach di Bosnia dan Herzegovina abad pertengahan|Bosnia dan Herzegovina]]), orang-orang Vlach telah ter[[asimilasi]] dengan penduduk [[Slavia]] lainnya.
Saat ini, jumlah orang yang menuturkan bahasa Roman Timur diperkirakan mencapai 26-30 juta orang di seluruh dunia (termasuk [[diaspora Rumania]] dan [[diaspora Moldova|Moldova]]).<ref name="Assembly.coe.int">{{cite web|url=http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=http%3A%2F%2Fassembly.coe.int%2FDocuments%2FAdoptedText%2Fta97%2FEREC1333.htm |title=Council of Europe Parliamentary Recommendation 1333 (1997) |publisher=Assembly.coe.int |date=1997-06-24 |accessdate=2013-02-08}}</ref>
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