Romanian
Romanian
is
a Romance language derived mainly from the Latin language spoken in the ancient
Roman province of Dacia,
which coincides roughly with modern Romania. Romanian has four principal
dialects. Daco-Romanian, or Romanian proper, is spoken by about 20 million
people in Romania, in parts of; Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Moldova, where it
is officially called Moldovan (although widely considered identical to
Romanian). It is also spoken in; The Ukraine, Russia, Uzbekistan, Israel, Canada,
Kazakhstan and The United States.
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