Romanian
Romance language
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Summary
Romanian is a natural language[1]. Romanian ranks in the top 5% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26,506 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Romania[3], Moldova[4], Serbia[5], Ukraine[6]
- Instance of: modern language[7]
- Named after: Romanians[8]
- Subclass of: Eastern Romance[9]
- Writing system: Latin script[10], Cyrillic script[11]
- Commons category: Romanian language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: ro[13]
- Said to be the same as: Moldovan[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Romanian language[15]
- Language regulatory body: Romanian Academy[16]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 24,300,000[17]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], New International Encyclopedia[20], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[21]
- Topic has template: Template:Romanian language[22], Q77706408[23]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/romanian[24]
- Native label: limba română[25], românește[26]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C154090[27]
- Short name: румынский[28], румунська[29], română[30], rumınca[31], румынаг[32], румънски[33], romunščina[34], румынская[35], roumain[36], romeno[37]
- Different from: Romani[38], Romansh[39], Old Romanian[40], Moldovan[41]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[42]
- History of topic: history of the Romanian language[43]
- Indigenous to: Romania[44], Moldova[45]
- Female form of label: la langue roumaine[46]
- Studied by: Romanian studies[47]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/RON[48], https://afbo.info/languages/125[49]
Why It Matters
Romanian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] Romanian is known by 96 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]