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).
Među lingvistima postoji konsenzus da su vlaški i rumunski verzije istog jezika zasnovanog na latinskom (još jedna verzija, dalmatinski, izumro je 1898. godine, dok istro-rumunski govori nekoliko hiljada ljudi u Hrvatskoj).