Rumanorumana

Rumanorumana is a hypothetical ethnolinguistic designation found in speculative linguistics and worldbuilding. It is used to refer to a proposed East Romance language subgroup and the cultural milieu associated with it. The term is not part of the mainstream, peer-reviewed taxonomy of Romance languages, but is used in thought experiments to explore contact phenomena in Southeastern Europe.

Geographic scope and identity are described as a frontier zone in the Carpathian and Balkan regions, imagined to span parts of present-day Romania, Moldova, Serbia, and Bulgaria. In these narratives, speakers arise from long-standing contact between Romance-speaking communities and neighboring Slavic and Greek-speaking populations.

Linguistic characteristics attributed to Rumanorumana include a continuum of varieties with shared innovations, such as a shift of certain Latin vowels and the emergence of verb aspect markers. Lexical core is drawn from Latin, with borrowings from Slavic and Greek. The designation emphasizes structural rather than a single standardized language.

Scholarly reception is mixed. In real-world linguistics, Rumanorumana is treated as a provisional construct for theoretical comparison rather than a proven language family. Critics argue the label conflates diverse varieties and lacks documented data.

In fiction and role-playing settings, Rumanorumana provides a concise label for a culture with distinctive music, art, and customs derived from imagined historical contact in the region.