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Originally Posted by coolasfcuk
we are all coming from ASIA!
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Exactly, all those peoples you are talking about are all ultimately related anyway, they are all Indo-European peoples (except Hungarians of course), they are all descendants of the original proto-Indo-European people who lived around the Caspian Sea 10 thousand years ago.
Before the Indo-Europeans settled in Europe, Europe was populated by the so-called Megalithic peoples (the ones who have left all those stone monuments in western Europe), those peoples also created the civilizations of Mycenae and Crete in proto-Greece. The Megalithic peoples have been totally annihilated by Indo-Europeans when they settled in Europe.
Now Romanians.
Romanians are descendants of Dacians. Dacians were among the first wave of Indo-Europeans who settled in Europe, they arrived there maybe around 2000 BC along with Celtics, Italics, and Greeks. Each of those Indo-European families settled in various regions of Europe, Dacians settled in the Danube region, near the black sea, north of the Greeks.
Of course, as we all know, Celtics, Dacians, and Greeks were all later conquered by the Italics who founded the Roman Empire.
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The Romanian teritory was inhabited in ancient times by the Dacians, who spoke an indo-european language, the Dacian language about which there is very little knowledge, but some linguists think that it was fairly close to Latin.
After the Roman conquest, Dacia was transformed in a Roman province and the popular ("vulgar") Latin was used for administration and commerce.
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Later, when a new wave of Indo-Europeans brought the Germanics and the Slavics, Dacians managed to not be conquered and to keep vulgar Latin as their language.