roTechnical information about ISO 639 language code ro
The table below provides technical details for the Romanian language, designated by the ro code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Romanian Native Română |
| Family | Romance |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | BanatCrișanaMaramureșMoldavianMuntenian |
| Related languages | AromanianMegleno-RomanianIstro-RomanianItalianFrench |
| Key facts | Uses the Latin alphabet with five additional letters (ă, â, î, ș, ț)Retains a three-gender system including a neuter that behaves as masculine in the singular and feminine in the pluralKeeps more of the Latin case system than most other Romance languagesRoughly one-fifth of its core vocabulary is of Slavic originOld Church Slavonic served as its main written medium until the 16th century |
| Sample phrase | Salut, ce mai faci? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
Romanian belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Romance subgroup. It is the official language of Romania and Moldova, and it is used by Romanian minority communities in Serbia and Hungary. It is written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 25 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Romanian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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