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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Romanian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Romanian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The salutation is spelled servus in German, [2] Bavarian, Slovak, [3] Romanian [4] and Czech. [5] In Rusyn and Ukrainian it is spelled сервус, in the Cyrillic alphabet. [6] [7] In Slovenian and Croatian [8] the variant spelling serbus is also used. The greeting is spelled szervusz in Hungarian [9] and serwus in Polish. [10]
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 ...
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 ...
Dragostea din tei" is performed in Romanian and mentions the linden tree (Romanian: "tei"), which is commonly used in Romanian literature. [48] Throughout the song, its title is pronounced in an ambiguous way that could lead the listener to hear the phrase "Dragostea dintâi" (Romanian: "The first love").
Conducător – A title used by Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu. [4] Domnitor – The official title of the ruler of Romania between 1862 and 1881, equivalent to "Prince Regent". Paharnic – A historical Romanian rank. Mineriads – A series of violent protests in Bucharest during the 1990s. [5]
In addition to the seven core vowels, in a number of words of foreign origin (predominantly French, but also German) the mid front rounded vowel /ø/ (rounded Romanian /e/; example word: bleu /blø/ 'light blue') and the mid central rounded vowel /ɵ/ (rounded Romanian /ə/; example word: chemin de fer /ʃɵˌmen dɵ ˈfer/ 'Chemin de Fer') have been preserved, without replacing them with any ...
Until the 19th century, Romanian was usually written using a local variant of the Cyrillic alphabet.A variant based on the reformed Russian civil script, first introduced in the late 18th century, became widespread in Bessarabia after its annexation to the Russian Empire, while the rest of the Principality of Moldavia gradually switched to a Latin-based alphabet, adopted officially after its ...