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Language code: ro

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ro

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The table below provides technical details for the Romanian language, designated by the ro code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ro

Name

Official

Romanian

Native

Română

Family
Romance
Scripts
Latin
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

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

ISO 8859-2, ISO 8859-16, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Romania

17M

Moldova

2M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Romanian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

ro-MD – Romanian (Moldova)

ro-RO – Romanian (Romania)

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