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Vlach

  [vlahk, vlak]
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–noun
1. a member of a people living in scattered communities in the Balkans.
2. the Romanian dialect of these people.
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Vlach   (vläKH)   
n.  A member of a people forming the principal ethnic group of Romania, also located in small populations in other parts of the Balkan Peninsula.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Vlach 
"member of a Latin-speaking race of the Balkans, a Walachian or Romanian," 1841, from Bulg. vlakh or Serbian vlah, from O.C.S. vlakhu, a Slavic adoptation of Gmc. *walh (cf. O.E. wealh) "foreigner," especially applied to Celts and Latins (see Welsh).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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