For many centuries Vlach was a spoken and not a written language. When it was committed to writing, the Cyrillic alphabet was used, in line with the Orthodox faith of the people. Later, a national consciousness arose in the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, where the language came to be called “Romanian.Vlachs did not come from nowhere they are the native people of this places oldest even than greeks. Several islands of Vlach speakers survive in Greece, Albania, and the former Yugoslavia, though the use of the word “Vlach” for these is dying out. Continue reading →