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Lesser spoken languages in Romania include: Serbo-Croatian (26,732: 20,377 Serbians, 6,355 Croatians), Slovak (16,108), Bulgarian (6,747), Greek (4,146). The use of French developed among Romanian elites from the 18th century. Patrick Leigh Fermor, who visited Romania in 1934, noted that although the elites were all bilingual, their mother ...
The Romanian dialect from Bucharest is standard Romanian (from the region of Muntenia, part of the historical Wallachia). Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; endonym: limba română [ˈlimba roˈmɨnə] ⓘ, or românește [romɨˈneʃte], lit.'in Romanian') is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
Atlas Linguarum Europae. The Atlas Linguarum Europae (literally Atlas of the Languages of Europe, ALE in acronym) is a linguistic atlas project launched in 1970 with the help of UNESCO, and published from 1975 to 2007. The ALE used its own phonetic transcription system, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet with some modifications.
Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, German, French, Italian, and English. Russian is the most-spoken native language in Europe, [4] and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language. (See English language in Europe.)
Retrieved 2 April 2018. ^ Dutch at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) ^ Serbo-Croatian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) ^ c. 12 million in European Turkey, 0.6 million in Bulgaria, 0.6 million in Cyprus and Northern Cyprus; and 2,679,765 L1 speakers in other countries in Europe according to a Eurobarometer survey in 2012: https ...
Romani is the only Indo-Aryan language spoken almost exclusively in Europe. [ 45 ] The most concentrated areas of Romani speakers are found in the Balkans and central Europe, particularly in Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Slovakia. [ 46 ]
The various regional and minority languages in Europe encompass four categories: The language of a community in one single country, where the language community is not the linguistic majority, e.g. Sorbian in Germany, or Welsh in the United Kingdom. The language of a community in two or more countries, in neither of which they are the ...
A number of Romance languages were once spoken in Southeastern Europe for centuries, [5] but the Dalmatian branch of this Eastern Romance disappeared centuries ago. [6] Although the surviving Eastern group of Eastern Romance has in the meantime split into four major languages, [7] their common features show that all of them originated from the same proto-language.