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Originally Posted by Llywarch Hen

The sensible view of Rumanian linguistic origins is that the land north of the river Danube was settled by Vlach pastoralists from around the area of modern Serbia. These people formerly spoke the language that survived among the Albanians, but were Romanised under the Empire. When the Slavonic states were coalescing, some Vlachs went north to settle the former Dacian region, much disturbed in the age of Migrations. They absorbed many Slavonic and other elements, possibly some remnants of the old Dacians, maybe even encountering a few remaining Latin speakers (highly unlikely, but I include it to flatter silly Rumanians who insist on continuity from Trajan's days! ). They somehow got the upper hand over various Kuman and Magyar populations and Rumanianised the whole area.

But weren't those Vlachs originally romanized Dacians?