The consensus among linguists is that Vlach and Romanian are variants of the same Latin-based language (another, Dalmatian, died out in 1898, while Istro-Romanian is spoken by a few thousand people in Croatia).
Lingvisti se slažu kako su vlaški i rumunjski varijante nekog latinskog jezika (još jedan, dalmatinski, iščeznuo je 1898., dok istro-romanski koristi nekoliko tisuća ljudi u Hrvatskoj).