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Population ➢ 50,000 (Salminen 1999) ➢ Ethnic Population: 700,000 ❖ Total users in all countries: 502, 160 Location ❖ Epirus, Western Macedonia, Macedonia and Thrace, and Thessaly and Central Different Names of how different countries call Aramanians ❖ Vlasi (Macedonian and Serbian) ❖ Vlahi (Greek) ❖ Ulahlar (Turkish) ❖ Vllehe  or Cobani (Albanian) ❖ Vlachs words come from the Greek. ❖ Serbs call the Aromanians Tsintsari , and they are known as Macedo-Romani  by the Romanians. ❖ They call themselves Armanji , and their language armaneashti  or limba armaneasca The different names of what Aromanians are called differ from each country’s native language, in Macedonian and Serbian, they are known as Vlasi, in Greek, they are known as Vlahi, in Turkish, they are known as Ulahlar, in Albanian, they are known as Vllehe or Cobani ❖ Earliest examples of Aromanian are manuscripts of the Patriarch Fotius dating from around 860-870 AD, and manuscripts written by St. Naum of Ohrid at the same time. ❖ The first person to publish material in Aromanian in the Latin alphabet was probably Dr. Ioryi Constantin Roja at the beginning of the 19th century. ❖ During the 1980s a new Aromanian spelling system began to emerge and has been adopted in most countries where Aromanian is spoken, with the exception of Greece and Romania, the accented letters, with the exception of a, was proposed by four Aromanian writers and first published in 1985. ❖ Aromanian has some official status in the Republic of Macedonia and is taught in some primary schools there as an optional subject. ➢ Aromanian speakers in Macedonia have the right to use Aromanian in court ❖ Since 2006, Aromanian has been the second official language (after Macedonian) in the city of Krusevo (Crushuva). ❖ Aromanian dialects: Cipan, Vargarean, Sarbean, Farsilotu, Gramustean, and Pindean....