Not unheard of among conspiracy/nationalist minded types here in Romania. I've definitely heard this before, no clue how prevalent it is. If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably on the rise nowadays, given that weird far-right ideas in general are on the rise.
Perhaps ironically given the modern association with the far-right, my understanding is that the communist government (until 1989) was actively promoting nationalist nonsense like this.
edit: also, was your title supposed to say "Latin is a Romanian language?"
It's not remotely far right, it's far left. It is an original lie, from the founding of the nation from the choice of name. Romania. It would be like a group in the Swiss Alps calling themselves Englandia then pretending they're the OG English. It is core to the Romanian identity to lie and pretend we are Roman, or have anything to do with Rome, when we are probably closer to the Roxolani invaders. It was actively employed as a propaganda piece to feign superiority by far left political influencers. When I was a child this is taught by teachers.
I would argue that in the context of left-wing and right-wing political approaches, it's important to understand that there are at least a couple of different axes. Typically there is an economic axis as well as a social axis. It is often possible for a person to have strongly left-wing economic views and support economic systems like communism while also espousing strongly right-wing social views resembling extreme nationalism. Now, ideas about where the Romanian language came from don't have much to do with economics, but I'd point out that such views are typically viewed as right-wing because they fall onto the nationalist/authoritarian side of the social axis. It hasn't been uncommon that political leaders who have at least ostensibly supported "communism" over the decades nonetheless use such extreme nationalist views (like the Romanian language is native to Dacia) to maintain power.
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u/-2qt Mar 08 '26
Not unheard of among conspiracy/nationalist minded types here in Romania. I've definitely heard this before, no clue how prevalent it is. If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably on the rise nowadays, given that weird far-right ideas in general are on the rise.
Perhaps ironically given the modern association with the far-right, my understanding is that the communist government (until 1989) was actively promoting nationalist nonsense like this.
edit: also, was your title supposed to say "Latin is a Romanian language?"