24 Facts About Romanian language

Romanian language descended from the Vulgar Latin spoken in the Roman provinces of Southeastern Europe.

Features that individualize Common Romanian language, inherited from Latin or subsequently developed, of particular importance are:.

Exact territory where Proto-Romanian language developed cannot certainly be determined and the general view is that the territory was a large one, consisting of both the north and the south of the Danube, more precisely to the north of the Jiricek Line.

Oldest extant document written in Romanian language remains Neacsu's letter and was written using the Romanian language Cyrillic alphabet, which was used until the late 19th century.

An attested reference to Romanian comes from a Latin title of an oath made in 1485 by the Moldavian Prince Stephen the Great to the Polish King Casimir, in which it is reported that "Haec Inscriptio ex Valachico in Latinam versa est sed Rex Ruthenica Lingua scriptam accepta"—This Inscription was translated from Valachian into Latin, but the King has received it written in the Ruthenian language .

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Polish chronicler Stanislaw Orzechowski notes in 1554 that "In their Romanian language they call themselves Romini from the Romans, while we call them Wallachians from the Italians".

Cantemir notes that while the idea of a Latin origin of the Romanian language was prevalent in his time, other scholars considered it to have derived from Italian.

Slow process of Romanian establishing itself as an official language, used in the public sphere, in literature and ecclesiastically, began in the late 15th century and ended in the early decades of the 18th century, by which time Romanian had begun to be regularly used by the Church.

Romanian language nouns preserve the neuter gender, although instead of functioning as a separate gender with its own forms in adjectives, the Romanian language neuter became a mixture of masculine and feminine.

The verb morphology of Romanian has shown the same move towards a compound perfect and future tense as the other Romance languages.

Romanian language minorities are encountered in Serbia, Ukraine, and Hungary .

Small Romanian language-speaking communities are to be found in Kazakhstan and Russia.

Romanian language is spoken within communities of Romanian language and Moldovan immigrants in the United States, Canada and Australia, although they do not make up a large homogeneous community statewide.

Scholars agree that Moldovan and Romanian are the same language, with the glottonym "Moldovan" used in certain political contexts.

In parts of Ukraine where Romanians constitute a significant share of the local population Romanian is taught in schools as a primary language and there are Romanian-language newspapers, TV, and radio broadcasting.

Romanian language is taught in some areas that have Romanian language minority communities, such as Vojvodina in Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Hungary.

The dialects of Romanian language are referred to as sub-dialects and are distinguished primarily by phonetic differences.

Romanian is a Romance language, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, having much in common with languages such as Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

Romanian language vocabulary became predominantly influenced by French and, to a lesser extent, Italian in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dacian Romanian language was an Indo-European Romanian language spoken by the ancient Dacians, mostly north of the Danube river but in Moesia and other regions south of the Danube.

Dacian is usually considered to have been a northern branch of the Thracian Romanian language, and, like Thracian, Dacian was a satem Romanian language.

Longest word in Romanian is, with 44 letters, but the longest one admitted by the Dictionarul explicativ al limbii romane is, with 25 letters.

Romanian language nouns are characterized by gender, and declined by number and case .

Romanian language has four verbal conjugations which further split into ten conjugation patterns.