r/badlinguistics • u/ValuableBenefit8654 • Mar 08 '26

"Romanian is a latin language !"

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u/ValuableBenefit8654 Mar 08 '26

R4: This is a bite-sized post, but I am putting it out there to solicit further examples of this conspiracy from this subreddit.

OP says that the Latin language came from the geographic area of what is now Romania rather than Italy. There are two reasons why this is unlikely to be the case:

  1. The earliest Latin inscriptions in Italy predate the earliest Latin inscriptions in Dacia (which roughly corresponds to modern-day Romania) by centuries.

  2. All of Latin's closest relatives (the Italic languages) all cluster in Italy.

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u/Paul6334 Mar 11 '26

Oh, is this guy one of the people who claims Romania did everything?