Orang-orang Vlach kemungkinan besar merupakan keturunan orang-orang Dacia.[2] Menurut beberapa ahli, rumpun bahasa Roman Timur membuktikan bahwa orang-orang Trako-Roman berhasil bertahan di cekungan Donau hilir selama Periode Migrasi,[3] walaupun populasi Balkan barat yang juga disebut "Vlach" memiliki darah Iliria yang telah mengalami romanisasi.[4]
Saat ini, jumlah orang yang menuturkan bahasa Roman Timur diperkirakan mencapai 26-30 juta orang di seluruh dunia (termasuk diaspora Rumania dan Moldova).[5]
↑Fine 1991, p.?: "Traditionally scholars have seen the Dacians as ancestors of the modern Rumanians and Vlachs."
↑According to Cornelia Bodea, Ştefan Pascu, Liviu Constantinescu: "România: Atlas Istorico-geografic", Academia Română 1996, ISBN973-27-0500-0, chap. II, "Historical landmarks", hlm. 50 (teks Inggris), the survival of the Thraco-Romans in the Lower Danube basin during the Migration period is an obvious fact: Thraco-Romans haven't vanished in the soil & Vlachs haven't appeared after 1000 years by spontaneous generation.
↑Badlands-Borderland: A History of Southern Albania/Northern Epirus [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover) by T.J. Winnifruth, ISBN0-7156-3201-9, 2003, page 44: "Romanized Illyrians, the ancestors of the modern Vlachs".