The language is assumed to be spoken at "present" in an alt-historical setting. Among several other changes, this world has a tech level of about 1850 AD, with several centers of development (not only Europe, but southern and eastern Asia etc), still has Byzantium (the one true "Romania", albeit Greek-speaking) as an existing political reality of a certain geopolitical weight; and several Romance-speaking nations non-existing in our timeline (OTL).