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While Romanian is the only official language at the national and local level, there are over 30 living languages identified as being spoken within Romania (5 of these are indigenous). [7] The Romanian laws include linguistic rights for all minority groups that form over 20% of a locality's population based on the census from 1992.
Romanian-American Network Inc. a Romanian heritage and cultural oasis in USA Romanian Business Professionals is a non-profit organization with a membership that adheres to three primary objectives: networking and mutual support; learning/advancement of the members; Impacting the Romanian community (primarily in the US) [2]
As such, according to the Romanian census, of the total population of 805,000, 74% were called Romanians; the number included the Ukrainians and other possibly related Ukrainian ethnic groups Hutsuls referred to as "Romanians who forgot their native language" [36]
There are no concrete statistics for the number of Romani speakers, both in Europe and globally. However, a conservative estimate is 3.5 million speakers in Europe and a further 500,000 elsewhere, [308] though the actual number may be considerably higher. This makes Romani the second-largest minority language in Europe, behind Catalan. [308]
During the interwar period, the number of ethnic Romanians who migrated to the U.S. decreased as a consequence of economic development in Romania, but the number of Jews who migrated to the U.S. increased, mostly after the rise of fascism. After World War II, the number of Romanians who migrated to the United States increased again.
Italy is the most common destination for Romanian emigrants, with over one million Romanians living there.. In 2006, the Romanian diaspora was estimated at 8 million people by then President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, most of them living in the former USSR, Western Europe (esp. Italy, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Austria), North America (Canada and the United States), South ...
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In Romania, a country with a sizable Romani minority (3.3% of the total population), there is a unified teaching system of the Romani language for all dialects spoken in the country. This is primarily a result of the work of Gheorghe Sarău , who made Romani textbooks for teaching Romani children in the Romani language. [ 50 ]