Megleno-Romanian
/mɪɡˌliːnəʊrə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪən/ /mɪɡˌliːnəʊruːˈmeɪnɪən/ /mɪɡˌliːnəʊrʊˈmeɪnɪən/(also Megleno-Rumanian)
noun
A Balkan Romance language closely related to Romanian and spoken by a small number of people of Vlach extraction in northern Greece and Macedonia, and by scattered communities elsewhere.
- Megleno-Romanian is now an endangered language..
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in John Orr (1885–1966). From the name of Meglen, a region of northern Greece + -o- + Romanian noun.