Romanian language

Romanian
Romanian
Daco-Romanian
limba română, românește, română
Pronunciation	[roˈmɨnə]
Native to	Romania, Moldova
Region	Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Eastern Europe
Ethnicity	Romanians; (including Moldovans);
Native speakers	23.6–24 million (2016); Second language: 4 million; L1+L2 speakers: 28–29 million;
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Eastern Romance Northern Romanian? Eastern Romanian? Romanian; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Italic Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Common Romanian ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Transylvanian; Crișana; Moldavian; Banat; Wallachian; Maramureș; Bukovinian;
Writing system	Latin (Romanian alphabet); Cyrillic Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet (Transnistria only); Romanian Cyrillic alphabet (until 1860s); ; Romanian Braille;
Official status
Official language in	Romania; Moldova; Transnistria (as "Moldovan"); Vojvodina (Serbia); European Union;
Recognised minority; language in	Hungary; Serbia (both as Romanian and "Vlach"); Ukraine (both as Romanian and "Moldovan");
Regulated by	Romanian Academy
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ro
ISO 639-2	rum (B) ; ron (T)
ISO 639-3	ron
Glottolog	roma1327
Linguasphere	51-AAD-c (varieties: 51-AAD-ca to -ck)
	Blue: region where Romanian is the dominant language. Cyan: areas with a notable minority of Romanian speakers.
	Distribution of the Romanian language in Romania, Moldova and surroundings

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. 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 occupies the 10th position among 37 official languages.

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". On 16 March 2023, the Moldovan Parliament approved a law on referring to the national language as Romanian in all legislative texts and the constitution. On 22 March, the president of Moldova, Maia Sandu, promulgated the law.

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