Bulgarians don't take on a south slavic language? Romance instead?

Archaeology, primary sources and analogies.
Considering that there is no document written in Romanian before the 16th century, I don't see how archeology could determine the ethnicity of the people living in Romania at the time. And there are no primary sources about the time of the arrival of the Romanians in their homeland.
 
What evidence is there of this?

I'm not aware of any hard evidence. I consider it "almost certain" because the Gesta Hungarorum claims that the Hungarians, immediately upon their arrival, encountered there Romanians (along with others). Such chronicles are far from reliable, but it does indicate one thing - that by the late XII century, the Romanian presence north of the Danube was old enough to be considered ancient by their Hungarian neighbors. The Primary Chronicle of Rus, compiled around 1113, makes a similar claim.
 
The arrival of Romanians in the present Romania does not necessarily have to have happened at at particular time. It might have happened over time. It is a paradox that an area that was part of the Roman Empire for a relatively short time should be the area where Eastern Romance today are at its strongest.
 
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