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Romanian language

The Romanian language is a Romance language, meaning it comes from Latin like French, Spanish and Italian. It has 66% Latin-based words and 20% Slavic-based words. The rest are newer and come from Dacian, Turkish, Greek, or English. There are about 28 million speakers: 24 million who speak it as their mother tongue and 4 million who have learned it as their second language.

Romanian
Daco-Romanian
limba română
Native toRomania, Moldova, Transnistria (Disputed region)
Minority in:
Israel, Serbia, Ukraine, Hungary, diaspora in Italy, Spain, Scotland, Portugal and other parts of Western Europe
Native speakers24 million  (2007)[1]
Second language: 4 million[2]
Language family
Early forms:
Proto-Romanian
  • Romanian
Dialects
Writing systemLatin (Romanian alphabet)
Romanian Braille
Official status
Official language in Romania
 Moldova [3]
Vojvodina
 European Union
Recognised minority language in Hungary
 Italy
 Serbia
 Spain
 Scotland
 Ukraine
Regulated byAcademia Română
Academy of Sciences of Moldova
Language codes
ISO 639-1ro
ISO 639-2rum (B)
ron (T)
ISO 639-3ron
Linguasphere51-AAD-c (varieties: 51-AAD-ca to -ck)
Map Roumanophone World.png
Blue: region where Romanian is the dominant language. Green: areas with a notable minority of Romanian speakers.
Spoken Romanian

Romanian is also the most spoken language in Moldova, which is northeast of Romania. The Moldovan language is a kind of Romanian with certain differences, such as the dialect and a Moldavian accent.

Romanian Language Media

  • Native from Bucharest, Romania speaking Romanian. The Romanian dialect from Bucharest is standard Romanian (from the region of Muntenia, part of the historical Wallachia).

  • Neacșu's letter is the oldest surviving document written in Old Romanian that can be precisely dated

  • Lithograph of a group portrait by Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, showing Paris-based revolutionaries during the early 1840s. From left: Rosenthal (wearing a Phrygian cap), C. A. Rosetti, anonymous Wallachian

  • Ion Creangă. Fotografie făcută în ate­lierul Heck, din Iaşi, pe timpul răsboiului din 1877. Ea trebuie să corăspundă cu intrarea lui Creangă în „Junimea".

  • Official usage of Romanian language in Vojvodina, Serbia

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  • Distribution of first-language native Romanian speakers by country—Voivodina is an autonomous province of northern Serbia bordering Romania, while Altele means "Other"

  • Romanian as secondary or foreign language in Central and Eastern Europe*     Native      Above 3%      1–3%      Under 1%      N/A

  • Romanian language in the Romance language family

References

  1. ↑ Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
  2. ↑ Latin Union
  3. ↑ The constitution of the Republic of Moldova refers to the country's language as Moldovan rather than Romanian, though in practice it is often called "Romanian". The introduction of the law concerning the functioning of the languages (September 1989), still effective in the Republic of Moldova according to the Constitution,Parlament.md asserts the linguistic identity between the Romanian language and the Moldovan language. IATP.md
  This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Romanian language edition.


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