Romanian

Also known as Romanian language, Rumanian, Rumanian language, Roumanian, Roumanian language, Moldovan, Moldovan language, Daco-Romanian

Romance language

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Romanian is a Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova, making it one of the major languages derived from Latin in Europe. It matters because it represents a distinct linguistic heritage that preserves features of Latin while developing independently from other Romance languages like Spanish, French, and Italian.

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coordinate location: 45,26
female form of label: la langue roumaine
Commons category: Romanian language
short name: румынская
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 24300000
Wikimedia language code: ro
native label: românește‎
exact match: afbo.info/languages/125
P10369: Lithuania
P11012: German
entry in abbreviations table: рум.
Stack Exchange tag: linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/romanian
P8168: Alvaro Mancori
NCI Thesaurus ID: C154090

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Native from Bucharest, Romania, speaking Romanian. The Romanian dialect from Bucharest is standard Romanian (from the region of Muntenia, part of the historical Wallachia).

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 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. To distinguish it within the Eastern Romance languages, in comparative linguistics it is called Daco-Romanian as opposed to its closest relatives, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian. It is also spoken as a minority language by stable communities in the countries surrounding Romania (Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Ukraine), and by the large Romanian diaspora. In total, it is spoken by 22 million people as a first language.