Aroman - Aroman

Japanese: アロマン - あろまん
Aroman - Aroman

...They speak Aromanian (a dialect of Romanian) and live in northern Greece, southern Albania, and Macedonia, but their number is said to be anywhere from tens of thousands to 400,000, making it difficult to pinpoint exactly how many there are. They call themselves Arǎmân or Armân. It is linguistically proven that they shared a common ancestor with the Romanians, but as the Balkan Peninsula became Slavic or Hellenized after the 6th century, they fled to the mountains and became mainly engaged in sheep farming, maintaining their communities centered around clans (falcari) until the early 20th century.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Aroman" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アルーマニア語(ルーマニア語の方言)を話し,ギリシア北部,アルバニア南部,マケドニアに住むが,その数は数万とも40万ともいわれ,正確にはとらえがたい。自称はアロマンArǎmân,アルマンArmân。ルーマニア人と共通の祖先を有したことは言語的にも立証されているが,6世紀以降バルカン半島がスラブ化あるいはギリシア化されるにしたがい,山地部に逃れておもに牧羊に従事し,氏族(ファルカリ)を中心とする共同体を20世紀初頭まで保持していた。…

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