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The number of Romanian words directly inherited from Latin (about 1,550–2,000, depending on the source) is similar to the other Romance languages, [14] and is low in comparison with Medieval Greek (which contained about 3,000 Latin roots). [15] Romanian along with Spanish and Portuguese retained more archaic lexical items from Latin than ...
The history of the Romanian language started in the Roman provinces north of the Jireček Line in Classical antiquity but there are 3 main hypotheses about its exact territory: the autochthony thesis (it developed in left-Danube Dacia only), the discontinuation thesis (it developed in right-Danube provinces only), and the "as-well-as" thesis that supports the language development on both sides ...
French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Romanian are also official languages of the European Union. [16] Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, and Catalan were the official languages of the defunct Latin Union; [17] and French and Spanish are two of the six official languages of the United Nations. [18]
In a study by linguist Mario Pei (1949), the degrees of phonological modification of stressed vowels of seven Romance languages with respect to Vulgar Latin were found to be as follows (with higher percentages indicating greater divergence from the stressed vowels of Vulgar Latin): [22] [23] Sardinian: 8%; Italian: 12%; Spanish: 20%; Romanian ...
A facilitating factor in the acquisition of Italian by Romanians is the similarity between the phonetic systems. The orthography of both languages has a good correspondence between phonemes and graphemes and uses similar systems to represent identical sounds in both Italian and Romanian, including: ce - ci - chi - ge - gi - ghe - ghi.
Romanian dative phrases exhibit clitic doubling similar to that in Spanish, in which the noun in the dative is doubled by a pronoun. The position of this pronoun in the sentence depends on the mood and tense of the verb .
Romanian has inherited about 2000 Latin words through Vulgar Latin, sometimes referred to as Danubian Latin in this context, that form the essential part of the lexis and without them communication would not be possible. 500 of these words are found in all other Romance languages, and they include prepositions and conjunctions (ex: cu, de, pe, spre), numerals (ex: unu, doi, trei), pronouns (ex ...
While Romanian is the only official language at the national and local level, there are over 30 living languages identified as being spoken within Romania (5 of these are indigenous). [7] The Romanian laws include linguistic rights for all minority groups that form over 20% of a locality's population based on the census from 1992.