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Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin which separated from the Western Romance languages in the course of the period from the 5th to the 8th centuries. [12] .
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The Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance...
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Moldovans, sometimes referred to as Moldavians (Romanian:...
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An Aromanian speaking in the Gramostean dialect, recorded in...
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The extent of Megleno-Romanian (in purple) and Aromanian (in...
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Italic; Latino-Sabine, Italic–Venetic: Ethnicity: Originally...
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Romania is a country at the crossroads of Central, Eastern...
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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.
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According to the 2002 Romanian Census, Romanian is spoken by 91% of the population as a primary language. According to the Romanian Constitution and the law 1206 of 2006the 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, c...
After the fall of Romania's communist government in 1989, the various minority languages have received more rights, and Romania currently has extensive laws relating to the rights of minorities to use their own language in local administration and the judicial system. While Romanian is the only official language at the national and local level, the...
(in Romanian) Romanian National Census 2002, POPULATIA DUPA LIMBA MATERNA sectionThe 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.
- 24 million (2007), Second language: 4 million
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.
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.
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 3 March 2024 this edition has 444,534 articles and is the 32nd largest Wikipedia edition.
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