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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 history of the Romanian language started in the Roman provinces north of the Jireček Line in Classical antiquity but there are 3 main hypotheses about its exact territory: the autochthony thesis (it developed in left-Danube Dacia only), the discontinuation thesis (it developed in right-Danube provinces only), and the "as-well-as" thesis that supports the language development on both sides ...
About 9.3% of Romania's population is represented by minorities (the rest of 77.7% being Romanians), and 13% unknown or undisclosed according to 2021 census. [1] The principal minorities in Romania are Hungarians (Szeklers, Csangos, and Magyars; especially in Harghita, Covasna, and Mureș counties) and Romani people, with a declining German population (in Timiș, Sibiu, Brașov, or Suceava ...
Over half of the Roma (approx. 61%) speak Romanian as their native language, the rest (around 8-9%) speaking the Hungarian language. [76] Both the Roma and the Romanian languages are of the Indo-European language family , while the Hungarian is a Uralic one.
The National Agency for the Roma (Romanian: Agenția Națională pentru Romi, ANR; Romani: Themeski Ajenciya le Romengi) is an agency of the Romanian government which seeks to improve the social and economic situation of Romania's Roma minority, which make up 2.5% of the population and are the country's most disadvantaged minority.
Hungarians emigrated to Chicago at the end of the nineteenth century. [71] There is a Romanian community in Chicago. [72] Other European ethnic groups in Chicago are Slovaks, [73] Macedonians, [74] Estonians, [75] Latvians, [76] Slovenes, [77] Dutch, [78] Spaniards [79] and Norwegians. [80] There is a Belgian community in Chicago. [81]
The Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas (Romanian: Mitropolia Ortodoxă Română a celor două Americi) is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox metropolis of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Metropolia covers the territory of the United States and Canada .
Romani people in Chicago are an ethnic group in the Chicago area. Around 5,000 to 10,000 Roma reside in the Chicago area. [1]