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Romanian
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Romanian is a natural and modern language belonging to the Eastern Romance subclass. It is indigenous to Romania and Moldova, where it serves as a native language. The language is also spoken in Serbia and Ukraine. Its native label is *limba română* or *românește*. The Wikimedia language code for Romanian is "ro".
The language utilizes both the Latin and Cyrillic writing systems. It is characterized as a subject–verb–object, syllabic, fusional, and synthetic language. Grammatical features include masculine, feminine, and neuter genders, as well as nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative cases. The Romanian Academy acts as the regulatory body for the language. It is distinct from Romani, Romansh, and Old Romanian, though it is said to be the same as Moldovan.
There are 24,300,000 speakers, writers, or signers of Romanian. The language is maintained by WikiProject Languages, WikiProject Romania, and WikiProject Moldova. It appears on the focus list of WikiProject Ukraine and Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4. Films in this language are categorized under Category:Romanian-language films. The subject is referenced by 8,342 other encyclopedia articles.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Eastern Romance
- Named after
- Romanians
- Country
- Ukraine
- Said to be same as
- Moldovan
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- coordinate location
- 45,26
- female form of label
- la langue roumaine
- Commons category
- Romanian language
- short name
- румынская
- topic's main category
- Category:Romanian language
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- linguistic typology
- vowel harmony
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 24300000
- different from
- Moldovan
- has grammatical case
- oblique case
- language regulatory body
- Romanian Academy
- category for films in this language
- Category:Romanian-language films
- has grammatical gender
- neuter
- Wikimedia language code
- ro
- native label
- românește
- indigenous to
- Moldova
- exact match
- afbo.info/languages/125
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- P10369
- Lithuania
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- P11012
- German
- entry in abbreviations table
- рум.
- has tense
- future perfect
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/romanian
- history of topic
- history of the Romanian language
- P8168
- Alvaro Mancori
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C154090
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Encyclopedic overview
Native from Bucharest, Romania, speaking Romanian. The Romanian dialect from Bucharest is standard Romanian (from the region of Muntenia, part of the historical Wallachia).
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. It is also spoken as a minority language 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 22 million people as a first language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Romanian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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