Romanian language

The Romanian language is a Romance language, meaning it comes from Latin like French, Spanish and Italian. It has 66% Latin-based words and 20% Slavic-based words. The rest are newer and come from Dacian, Turkish, Greek, or English. There are about 28 million speakers: 24 million who speak it as their mother tongue and 4 million who have learned it as their second language.

Romanian
Daco-Romanian
limba română
Native to	Romania, Moldova, Transnistria (Disputed region) Minority in: Israel, Serbia, Ukraine, Hungary, diaspora in Italy, Spain, Scotland, Portugal and other parts of Western Europe
Native speakers	24 million (2007)[1] Second language: 4 million[2]
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Eastern Romance Romanian
Early form	Proto-Romanian
Writing system	Latin (Romanian alphabet) Romanian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Romania  Moldova [3] Vojvodina  European Union
Recognised minority language in	Hungary  Italy  Serbia  Spain  Scotland  Ukraine
Regulated by	Academia Română Academy of Sciences of Moldova
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ro
ISO 639-2	rum (B) ron (T)
ISO 639-3	ron
Linguasphere	51-AAD-c (varieties: 51-AAD-ca to -ck)
Blue: region where Romanian is the dominant language. Green: areas with a notable minority of Romanian speakers.

Spoken Romanian

Romanian is also the most spoken language in Moldova, which is northeast of Romania. The Moldovan language is a kind of Romanian with certain differences, such as the dialect and a Moldavian accent.