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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.
As of 2023, there were 630,795 Romanian citizens living in Spain. [5] Most of the immigration took place given economic reasons. The linguistic similarities between Romanian and Spanish, as well as Romanians' Latin identity, are also a reason for the country's attractiveness to Romanians. [6]
Spanish (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 486 million 74 million 560 million Modern Standard Arabic (excl. dialects) Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 0 [a] 332 million 332 million French (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 74 million 238 million 312 million Bengali: Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 237 million 41 million 278 million ...
Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1]: 160,000,000 [1]: 2 German: 97,000,000 [2]: 170,000,000 [3]: 3 French: 81,000,000 [4]: 210,000,000 ...
Romanian is a Romance language, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, having much in common with languages such as Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese. [86] Compared with the other Romance languages, the closest relative of Romanian is Italian. [86]
Though not official, Spanish has a special status in the American state of New Mexico. [37] With almost 60 million native speakers and second language speakers, the United States now has the second-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico. [38] Spanish is increasingly used alongside English nationwide in business and politics.
The research also showed that the percentage of Latinos who speak Spanish at home declined from 78% in 2000 to 68% in 2021. Among the U.S.-born population, it has decreased from 66% to 55%.
The Spanish New-Protestant/New-Born Federation (mostly composed of members of the Assemblies of God and Pentecostal) claims that 150,000 gitanos have joined their faith in Spain. [39] The Romani Evangelical Assembly is the only religious institution entirely led and composed by Roma.