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uhm no... are u ok?

Don't the origins come from Latin and the Roman Empire? I thought that was where the reference to "Romance" came from.

I could be wrong but it's my understanding that Romania was given it's name by its neighbors, after the area was subjugated by Trajean and inhabited by Romans, to mean the land of the Romans or the place where they lived. Then eventually, once the name of the region had been established, the people who were indigenous to Romania (whose ancestors came from Northern India) started to be called Roma (in English they're typically called gypsies), even though their roots were not Roman. They were identified as such by people from other parts of Europe as the Roma are somewhat nomadic and spread out a lot. The majority of people still in Romania still spoke Latin or some derivative.

Some Romani find the word "Gypsy" offensive and racist, while others seem to accept or even use it with no problem. It's probably better if we refer to them as Roma or Romani.

Weird how that works, for me roma(ni) has a more negative connotation than gypsy. Which has a bit of an romantic air around it ( nothing to do with the language, but I mean the adventurous traveling life, living under the open sky)

I think it might be necessary to explain a romanian is NOT the same as a roma(ni) neither are the languages the same. You have got Romania with the langugage romanian. Which is not related to the traveling group sometimes also referred to as gypsies, the romani. Which are indo-aryan origin and so is their language also called romani

fun fact the word gypsies come from egyptian, there were stories that that was were they originated from. (But in fact they originate from india)

btw not only does romania(n) and roma(ni) have nothing to do with eachother. The names also are not related. The name is most likely to come from (sanskriet) doma, “member of a low caste of travelling musicians and dancers”. The dom people are group with which they share similar history.

Frenchies always crying about bullshit xd

Significantly, while most if not all of their vocabulary comes from the dominant language (say French), the structures are heavily if not exclusively influenced by the other languages (say West African languages, in the case of Haitian). They're usually put in their own category, although you can refer to them as, for example, Romance-lexified.