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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
6 9

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
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Alphabets
31 13

Phonology

How Many Vowels
7 4

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

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 72

Dialect 2
Megleno-Romanian

Where They Speak
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey

How Many People Speak
5,000.00 90

Dialect 3
Istro-Romanian

Where They Speak
Croatia

How Many People Speak
1,400.00 78

Total No. Of Dialects
10 10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million 38

Speaking Population
0.37 % 37

Native Speakers
24.00 million 33

Second Language Speakers
4.00 million 52

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 33

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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