Romanian is a language that belongs to the Italic-Romance branch of the Indo-European languages. It is part of the sub-group of the Eastern Romance languages. Romanian is the official language in Romania (19.2 millio speakers) and Moldova (2.8 million speakers, i.e. 64.5% of the population), where it is also called Moldovan. In Hungary (25,000 speakers), Romania is recognised as a minority language.
The Romanian language essentially came into existance once the autochthonous Dacians started to speak Vulgar Latin after their region was conquered by Roman Emperor Trajan (106 AD).
Romanian has a very long history of contacts to the Slavic languages and consists for about 10% of absorbed Slavic words.
Hello - salut
Cheers - noroc
You are not alone - NU EŞTI SINGUR
Until 1862 Romanian was written in the Cyrillic alphabet. The so-called Transylvanian School developed the Latin alphabet that is still being used nowadays, including the five special letters: ă, â, î, ș, ț.
Rumanians in Bulgaria (2.500 Speaker)
Romanians in Hungary (25.000 Speaker)
Romanians in Ukraine (459.000 Speaker)
Romanians in Czech Republic (1.000 Speaker)
Romanians in Serbia (42.000 Speaker)