Old Romanian

Old Romanian it as named the literary stage of Romanian language up to the publishing of Elementa linguae daco-romanae sive valachicae and it attested with the oldest preserved Romanian texts such as Neacșu's letter and the so-called Rhotacizing Texts.
During this period the first religious literary texts written in Romanian appear, followed by the first popular literary texts, and translations such as narratives Varlaam şi Ioasaf  and Alexandria. The period is characterized by the advent of the printed books and the almost exclusive use of the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet.

Phonology

 Vowels 
Stressed  from Common Romanian developed into the vowel  in the pre-literary stage of the language. The Old Romanian vowel system which is preserved in the current stage of the language.  The asyllabic final sound [u]'s devoicing was not complete in Old Romanian.

FrontCentralBackCloseNear-close Close-midMid Open

 Consonants 

Old Romanian retained the consonants  and  from Common Romanian, but with a limited distribution, mainly in the Banat-Hunedoara-Oltenia part. It also had two consonants characterized as intense, after which the front vowels ,  underwent velarization.
LabialDental/AlveolarPost-alveolarPalatalVelarGlottalcentralsibilantStopvoicelessvoicedAffricatevoicelessvoicedFricativevoicelessvoicedNasalTrillApproximantlateralcentral 

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Category:Romance languages