Complex sentence: All Eastern Romance variants share a number of peculiarities which differentiate them to such an extent from other Romance languages that Friedrich Diezthe first Romance philologisteven stated in 1836 that Romanian was "only a semi-Romance language".
Split into simpler sentences: All Eastern Romance variants share a number of peculiarities which differentiate them to a great extant from other Romance languages. Accordingly, Friedrich Diez, the first Romance philologist even stated in 1836 that Romanian was "only a semi-Romance language".