Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20160403151014/@comment-26005008-20160407004100

On the topic of Romanian, in about the 18th century we discovered that Romanian was really a Romance language, not a Slavic language as many of us had assumed. We slowly transferred to a Latin alphabet, and adopted lots of words from Italic languages, especially French, leaving some other terms in the dust. (Our siblings in Moldavia conserved the Cyrillic alphabet for a longer period, and still use it sometimes.) This was actually a pretty common process amongst our languages: for a while, we didn’t particularly realise that we were speaking languages that were separate from Latin, we just assumed that we spoke like our ancestors in ancient Rome did. When we did realise this, we adopted lots of terms from Latin, and even imitated the orthography to an extent. That’s why our languages use the letter ‘h’ even though aspiration was lost in Vulgar Latin (and consequently, our languages—but we did borrow aspiration from neighbouring the tongues).