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Countries

Countries

European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine

Total No. Of Countries

6
Rank: 9 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Moldova, Romania

Second Language

Kazakhstan, Russia

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li

Interesting Facts

  • Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
  • The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.

Similar To

French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.

Derived From

Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

31
Rank: 13 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

7
Rank: 4 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

alo

Thank You

multumesc

How Are You?

ce mai faci?

Good Night

noapte Buna

Good Evening

buna Seara

Good Afternoon

buna Ziua

Good Morning

bună Dimineața

Please

Vă Rog

Sorry

scuze

Bye

La revedere

I Love You

Te iubesc

Excuse Me

Scuza-Ma

Dialects

Dialect 1

Aromanian

Where They Speak

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey

How Many People Speak

250,000.00
Rank: 72 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Megleno-Romanian

Where They Speak

Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey

How Many People Speak

5,000.00
Rank: 90 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Istro-Romanian

Where They Speak

Croatia

How Many People Speak

1,400.00
Rank: 78 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.37 %
Rank: 37 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

24.00 million
Rank: 33 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

4.00 million
Rank: 52 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

Română

Alternative Names

Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian

French Name

roumain; moldave

German Name

Rumänisch

Pronunciation

[roˈmɨnə]

Ethnicity

Romanians

History

Origin

1521

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Romanian

Standard Forms

Romanian

Language Position

36
Rank: 33 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Romanian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ro

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ron

ISO 639 2/B

rum

ISO 639 3

ron

ISO 639 6

ron

Glottocode

roma1327

Linguasphere

51-AAD-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Romanian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Romanian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Romanian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Romanian. Romanian phonology gives Romanian vowels and Romanian consonants. There are 7 vowels and 20 consonants in Romanian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Romanian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Romanian language is given in detail in this section.

All Romanian countries

Want to explore all Romanian countries? About Romanian language serves you with all Romanian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Romanian as official language are called as Romanian countries.

  • Countries that use Romanian as their National Language are: Moldova, Romania.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Romanian as second language are: Kazakhstan, Russia.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Romanian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Romanian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Romanian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Romanian language.Learn Romanian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: alo
  • Thank you: multumesc
  • Good Morning: bună Dimineața
  • Good Evening: buna Seara
  • Good Afternoon: buna Ziua

All Romanian Language Codes

Get to know all Romanian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Romanian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.