Information

This section contains information about the Romanian language, as well as links to resources.

• Briefing

  • Name: Romanian (previously also spelled Rumanian and Roumanian[French roumain]), also known as Daco-Romanian in comparative linguistics to help distinguish it from other Romanian languages (Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian).
  • Family: Balkan Romance < Eastern Romance < Romance < Italic < † Italo-Celtic < Italic < Indo-European
  • Ethnicity: Romanians, Moldovans
  • Native speakers: ~26 million, of which 19 million are in Romania¹

  † - The Italo-Celtic grouping of the Italic and Celtic languages is disputed on the basis of disagreement on the causes of similarities between these two branches.

  • Native countries

    This section contains information about the countries to whom the Romanian language is native (Romania and Moldova), as well as information for the Romanian diaspora (ethnic Romanian population outside of those countries).

    • Romania

      • Wikipedia Article - Surface information about the Romanian country.
      • Culture Crossing Guide - Facts about Romania and its culture, as well as its people.

    • Moldova

      • Wikipedia Article - Surface information about the Moldovan country.
      • Culture Crossing Guide - Facts about Moldova and its culture, as well as its people.

    • Diaspora

      • Wikipedia Article - Surface information about the diaspora, and its population composition of various countries.

• Introduction

  • Videos

    • Romanian: The Forgotten Romance Language
    • Raluca speaking Romanian
    • Romanian Language Learning Tips

  • Links to other pages

    • Wikipedia Article - More information about the Romanian language, its family, its history, dialects, classification, geographic distribution and grammar.
    • Omniglot - A brief overview of the Romanian language.

• Connections to other languages

  • 🇦🇱 The Romanian-Albanian Linguistic Connection

• Comparisons to other languages

  • ✝️ Romanian vs Latin 🇷🇴

  • 🇷🇴 Latin vs Romanian ✝️

  • 🇷🇴 Romanian vs Spanish, French 🇫🇷 🇪🇸

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