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Romanian

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Romanian is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
ron 2
Speaker Count
22,000,000 2
2020 estimate, native speakers.
Status
Living 2
Region
Southeastern Europe 2
Partially Attested
Attested From (Year)
from 1521 2
Neacsu's letter of 1521 is the oldest precisely dated Romanian document; the Hurmuzaki Psalter is older but is dated only by watermarks to between 1491 and 1504.
Classification
Language Kind
Safe 1
Official Status
Official Language 2
Connections

In Family

Indo-European, Language Families
Source Wikipedia: Romanian Language

Written In

Latin Script, Scripts
In the Other Atlases

Cases Where Used

Vlachs

Also in Society and Culture Atlas: used in this subject.

Original Language Of

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Also in Film and Media Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Also in Film and Media Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Child's Pose (film)

Also in Film and Media Atlas: a work originally in this language.

A Confession

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Alejo Carpentier

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Alexander Pushkin

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

And Quiet Flows the Don

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Anna Karenina

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Anton Chekhov

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Boris Pasternak

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Crime and Punishment

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Dead Souls

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Death and the Penguin

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Doctor Zhivago

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Eugene Onegin

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Ivan Turgenev

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Jaroslav Hašek

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Leo Tolstoy

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Lu Xun

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Nikolai Gogol

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Notes from Underground

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Roadside Picnic

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Sholem Aleichem

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Brothers Karamazov

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Government Inspector

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Idiot

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Lady with the Dog

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Master and Margarita

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Overcoat

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Prisoner of the Caucasus

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Queen of Spades

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Twelve Chairs

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Winter Queen

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

The Young Guard

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Viy

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Vladimir Nabokov

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

War and Peace

Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Found In

Eastern Europe

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Europe

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources
1. Glottolog: Romanian (Glottolog languoid roma1327)
GlottologEndangerment, AES status
Quote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
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2. Wikipedia: Romanian Language
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    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.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    ron
  • Infobox: date
    2020
  • Lead section, first sentence
    is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
  • Infobox, Region (first listed)
    Southeastern Europe
  • History, earliest texts
    The oldest Romanian document precisely dated is Neacșu's letter (1521) and was written using the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, which was used until the late 19th century.
  • In Family: Indo-European, Article text
    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.
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