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Romanian linguist Ovid Densusianu coined the term "Thraco-Roman" in 1901 to describe the "oldest epoch of the creation of the Romanian language", when the Vulgar Latin between the 4th and 6th centuries, having its own peculiarities, had evolved into what is known as Proto-Romanian.
May 15, 2024 · Romanian language | Language Basics & Dialects | Britannica. Home Geography & Travel Languages. Romanian language. Also known as: Româna, Rumanian language. Written by. Rebecca Posner. Professor of Romance Languages, University of Oxford.
Native name: limba română [ˈlimba roˈmɨnə]; român [roˈmɨn] Language family: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Eastern Romance. Number of speakers: c. 24-26 million. Spoken in: Romanian and Moldova. First written: 1521. Writing system: Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
Main article: Romanian language. According to the 2002 Romanian Census, Romanian is spoken by 91% of the population as a primary language. 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.
The Romanian Wikipedia (abr. ro.wiki or ro.wp; Romanian: Wikipedia în limba română) is the Romanian language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started on 12 July 2003, as of 20 May 2024 this edition has 453,129 articles and is the 32nd largest Wikipedia edition.
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.
The Romanian dialects ( Romanian: subdialecte or graiuri) are the several regional varieties of the Romanian language ( Daco-Romanian ). The dialects are divided into two types, northern and southern, but further subdivisions are less clear, so the number of dialects varies between two and occasionally twenty.
