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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.
Romanian is almost exclusively spoken in territories that were never or for less than 180 years under Roman rule. Macedo-Romanian and Megleno-Romanian are spoken in the lands to the south of the Line.
The Romanian language is a Romance language, meaning it comes from Latin like French, Spanish and Italian. It has 66% Latin-based words and 20% Slavic -based words. The rest are newer and come from Dacian, Turkish, Greek, or English.
According to the Romanian Constitution [3] and the law 1206 of 2006 [4] the official language in Romania is Romanian both at the national and local level. Officially and since 2013, the Romanian language has its own holiday, the Romanian Language Day, celebrated in Romania on every 31 August. [5]
The only official language of the country is Romanian. This language belongs to the Balkan-Romance group, which descends from Vulgar Latin and dates back to the 5th century AD. Over the centuries, the language borrowed vocabulary from Slavic languages, Hungarian, Turkic, French, and Italian.
Romanian language, Romance language spoken mainly in Romania and Moldova. Its main dialects are Dacoromanian, the basis of the standard language, spoken in Romania and Moldova; Aromanian, spoken in Greece, North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, and Serbia; and nearly extinct Meglenoromanian and Istroromanian.
Romanian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Romania, Moldova and Transnistria. Other countries with a significant number of Romanian speakers include Serbia, Ukraine, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russian, Israel, the USA and Canada.
Romanian (archaically Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: limba română [ˈlimba roˈmɨnə] (listen), "the Romanian language", or românește, lit. "in Romanian") is an Eastern Romance language spoken by approximately 24–26 million people [4] [5] as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language.
Standard Romanian (i.e. the Daco-Romanian language within Eastern Romance) shares largely the same grammar and most of the vocabulary and phonological processes with the other three surviving varieties of Eastern Romance, namely Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian.. As a Romance language, Romanian shares many characteristics with its more distant relatives: Italian, French, Spanish ...
Romanian language , Romance language spoken mainly in Romania and Moldova. The name Romanian is usually identified with Daco-Romanian, one of the four major dialects of Balkan Romance.