Aromanians are a Latin people native throughout the southern Balkans

Balkans

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, especially in northern Greece

Greece

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, Albania

Albania

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, the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, and as an emigrant community in Serbia

Serbia

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 and Romania

Romania

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 (Dobrudja). An older term is Macedo-Romanians. Especially in Greece, the term Vlachs

Vlachs

Vlach is a blanket term covering several modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. English variations on the name include: Walla, Wlachs, Wallachs, Vlahs, Olahs or Ulahs...

(Vlaçi) is widespread; this term is sometimes used outside Greece to encompass all Latin-descended peoples of the Balkans, including the modern day Daco-Romanians

Romanians

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.

They speak Aromanian, a language similar to Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

 (not a dialect of it), which has many slightly varying dialects of its own.