Romanian Language: Eastern Romance language, official of Romania
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. There are about 28 million speakers: 24 million who speak it as their mother tongue and 4 million who have learned it as their second language.
| Romanian | |
|---|---|
| Daco-Romanian | |
| limba română | |
| Native to | Romania, Moldova, Transnistria (Disputed region) Minority in: Israel, Serbia, Ukraine, Hungary, diaspora in Italy, Spain, Scotland, Portugal and other parts of Western Europe |
Native speakers | 24 million (2007) Second language: 4 million |
Early form | Proto-Romanian |
| Latin (Romanian alphabet) Romanian Braille | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Romania Moldova Vojvodina  European Union |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Regulated by | Academia Română Academy of Sciences of Moldova |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | ro |
| ISO 639-2 | rum (B) ron (T) |
| ISO 639-3 | ron |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAD-c (varieties: 51-AAD-ca to -ck) |
 Blue: region where Romanian is the dominant language. Green: areas with a notable minority of Romanian speakers. | |
Romanian is also the most spoken language in Moldova, which is northeast of Romania. The Moldovan language is a kind of Romanian with certain differences, such as the dialect and a Moldavian accent.
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