Romanian language

Romanian is a Balkan Romance language spoken by roughly 22–26 million people as a native tongue, predominantly in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language in other parts of Europe. In accordance with another estimate, there are around 34 million persons worldwide who are able to communicate in Romanian, with 30 million of them speaking it as a first language. In addition to being an official and national language in both Romania and Moldova, Romanian is also one of the official languages of the European Union, along with Romanian.

In the Romance languages, Romanian belongs to the Eastern Romance sub-branch, which is made up of several dialects of Vulgar Latin that split off from the Western Romance languages in the course of time between the 5th and the 8th centuries. Romanian is a member of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages. In comparative linguistics, it is referred to as Daco-Romanian to differentiate it from its nearest cousins, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian, which are all members of the Eastern Romance language family. Despite the fact that Moldova's Constitutional Court determined in 2013 that "Romanian is the official language of the country," Romanian is referred to as Moldovan in Moldovan society.

There are many immigrant Romanian speakers living in a variety of different areas and nations across the globe, including considerable communities in Italy, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, among other places.