Romanian language

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Romanian (obsolete spellings: Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: limba română [ˈlimba roˈmɨnə] (Loudspeaker.svglisten), or românește, lit.'in Romanian') is the official and main language of Romania and the Republic of Moldova. As a minority language it is spoken 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 28–29 million people as an L1+L2 language, of whom c. 24 million are native speakers. In Europe, Romanian is rated as a medium level language, occupying the 10th position among 37 official languages.[4]

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Romanian
Daco-Romanian
limba română[1]
Pronunciation[roˈmɨnə]
Native toRomania, Moldova
RegionCentral Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Eastern Europe
Ethnicity
Native speakers
23.6–24 million (2016)[2]
Early forms
Dialects
Official status
Official language in
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated by
Language codes
ISO 639-1ro
ISO 639-2rum (B)
ron (T)
ISO 639-3ron
Glottologroma1327
Linguasphere51-AAD-c (varieties: 51-AAD-ca to -ck)
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Blue: region where Romanian is the dominant language. Cyan: areas with a notable minority of Romanian speakers.
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Distribution of the Romanian language in Romania, Moldova and surroundings
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A Romanian speaker (with a Transylvanian accent), recorded in Romania

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.[5] 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. Romanian was also known as Moldovan in Moldova, although the Constitutional Court of Moldova ruled in 2013 that "the official language of Moldova is Romanian".[nb 1]