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Classification and Dialects
Roumanish is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. Roumanish evolved from the fringes of Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in the boders of Gaul, and more specifically in south eastern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. Roumanish was also influenced by native Celtic languages of the alps and by the (Germanic) Frankish and Alemanic languages of the post-Roman invaders. Today, owing to the frequent contact with French since early middle ages, the orthography and pronunciation of Roumanish has been significantly to an extent of some mutual intelligibility. In the middle ages it was occassionally thought to be a dialect of French but over time the grammarians have come to appreciate the difference.

Stress
Stress in most unmarked words is usually on the last syllable. Exceptions to this general rule are quite myriad but in summary: NB; ''The difference between a stressed syllable and unstressed syllable is quite small sometimes they can only differ in length. Roumanish is a weakly accented language. ''
 * Marked stress is shown by accent marks, both acute and grave marks show stress. The two only differentiate the quality of the stressed vowel.
 * The circumflex on a vowel indicates lengthening which historically is a compensatory lengthening due to loss of s before another consonant e.g RĒS PŪBLICA > rêpúblique  /ʀɛ:'pyblik/ (republic).
 * In case of two accents on a word stress falls on the last accented syllable e.g. été /e'te/ (summer).
 * Wherue only the circumflex is present, the syllable with circumflex receives the stress e.g. êtique /'ɛ:tik/ (tidal).
 * Where the word is unmarked for stress if it ends in a single consonant, the consonant is muted and the last vowel undergoes compensatory lengthening, this is mostly evident in colloquial form of speech but has gained popularity even in formal speeches of late. This has resulted in the almost musical accent on the language.

Phonotactics
A basic syllable of Roumanish consist of (C)(C)(C)V(C). However most syllables are usually in the form (C)V (this is the most common pattern in Roumanish) since most codas are usually muted, almost like French.

Writing System
Roumanish is written in Latin alphabet. Its orthography is influenced by that of french although it differs in some aspects with it.