Romanian
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 Romanian pages
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| Latino-Faliscan | Faliscan | ||||
 Latin
| Italo-Dalmatian |  Corsican,  Dalmatian,  Istriot,  Italian,  Neapolitan,  Sicilian
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| Eastern Romance |  Moldovan, Romanian
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| Southern Romance |  Sardian,
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| Western Romance | Pyrenean-Mozarabic | Aragonese, Mozarabic | |||
| Gallo-Iberian | Langues d'oïl |  French
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| Gallo-Italian | |||||
| Ibero-Romance | West Iberian |  Galician,  Leonese,  Spanish,  Portuguese
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| East Iberian |  Catalan
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| Rhaeto-Romance |  Friulian,  Ladin,  Romansh
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| Oscan | Sabine, South Picene, Oscan | ||||
| Umbrian | Aequian, Marsian, Umbrian, Volscian | ||||
| Vestinian | Vestinian | ||||
Contents |
An Introduction to the Language
History
Romanian is one of the smaller members of the romance family. Romanian has had a lot of contact with the Slavic languages, and thus contains a lot Slavic influence. There are also lesser influences from German, Hungarian, Greek and Turkish. In modern times Romanian has been influenced a lot by French and Italian, and also by other international languages like English. Romanian has a lexical similarity with Italian estimated at 77%, followed by French at 75%, Sardinian 74%, Catalan 73%, Spanish 71%, Portuguese, and Rhaeto-Romance at 72%.
Family
Indo-European
- Italic
- Romance
- East Romance
- Romanian
- East Romance
- Romance
Spoken in
Romanian is an official language in Romania, Moldova, Vojvodina, the Latin Union and the European Union, with about 28 million speakers.
