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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.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
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Romania's population has declined steadily in recent decades, from a peak of 23.2 million in 1990 to 19.12 million in 2021. [10] Among the causes of population decline are high mortality, a low fertility rate since 1990, and tremendous levels of emigration. [10] In 1990, Romania's population was estimated to be 23.21 million inhabitants. [11]
Romanians (Romanian: români, pronounced; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking [63] [64] [65] ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. [66] Sharing a common culture and ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova.
The number of Romanian-born people resident in the UK has risen from 83,168 at the time of the 2011 United Kingdom census to 557,554 at the time of the 2021 United Kingdom census. Romanians constitute the fourth largest group of immigrants in England and Wales as of 2021, only behind those from Pakistan, Poland, and India.
Romanian speakers account for 0.5% of the world's population, [40] and 4% of the Romance-speaking population of the world. [41] Romanian is the single official and national language in Romania and Moldova, although it shares the official status at regional level with other languages in the Moldovan autonomies of Gagauzia and Transnistria.
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, [1] [2] making it the largest language by number of speakers, the third largest language by number of native speakers and the most widespread language geographically.