ISO 639-3 · ronron
Indo-European family
Romanian
limba română
Romanian is a language of the Eastern Romance branch (Indo-European), spoken in Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine. Wikidata counts 24.3 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “Romance language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
ron- ISO 639-1
ro- Glottocode
roma1327- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 45.00, 26.00
- Wikipedia
- 210 language editions
24.3 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
4countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Romanian · limba română |
|---|---|
| Also called | Romanian language, Rumanian, Rumanian language, Roumanian, Roumanian language |
| L1 speakers | 24,300,000 (2019) |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Official in | Moldova, Romania |
| Grammatical cases | 7 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Romanian
The branches above Romanian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Moldova
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