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	Wikipedia: Romanian language
		All dialects of Romanian are believed to have been unified in a common language until sometime between the 7th and the 10th century, before the Slavonic languages interfered with Romanian.
		The Romanian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, and has five additional letters (these are not diacriticals, but letters in their own right).
		Today, the Romanian alphabet is largely phonetic, with one exception: the "â" (used inside the words) and "î" (used at the beginning or the end), both representing the same sound.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/r/ro/romanian_language.html (1385 words)

	Romanian language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Neacşu wrote in a version of the old Cyrillic alphabet similar to the one for Old Church Slavonic, and which was used in Walachia and Moldova until 1859.
		A version of the Cyrillic alphabet was used in the Soviet Republic of Moldova until 1989, when they switched to the Romanian version of the Latin alphabet.
		This version of the Latin alphabet was used during the transition from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabets.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/romanian.htm (540 words)

	Romanian Information Center - romanian girls
		Romanian is one of the five languages in which religious services are performed in the autonomous monastic state of Mount Athos, spoken in the sketae of Prodromos and Lacu (a sketa romanian deadlift being a community of monks; sketae is plural).
		All the romanian clothing romanian words four dialects are offsprings of the Romance language spoken both in the North and South Danube, before the settlement of the Slavonian tribes south of the river - Daco-Romanian in the North, and the other three dialects in the south.
		Romanian nouns are inflected by gender (feminine, masculine and neuter), number (singular and plural) and case (nominative/accusative, dative/genitive and vocative).
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Romanian.html (3041 words)

	Latin alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the course of its use, the Latin alphabet was adapted for use for new languages, some of which had phonemes which were not used in languages previously written with this alphabet, and therefore extensions were created as needed.
		The alphabet is the same as the Turkish alphabet, with the same sounds written with the same letters, except for three additional letters: q, x and ə for sounds that don't exist in Turkish.
		The Finnish alphabet and collating rules are the same as in Swedish, except for the addition of the letters Š and Ž, which are considered variants of S and Z. In French and English, characters with diaeresis (ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ) are usually treated just like their un-accented versions.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Latin_alphabet (3802 words)

	Romanian
		Romanian is the easternmost member of the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family.
		Romanian is the official language of Romania where it is spoken as a first language by 20 million people and is used in all spheres of life.
		Romanian has preserved more of the Latin grammar than other Romance languages, possibly due to its relative isolation in the Balkans from other Romance languages, the existence of identical grammatical structures in the Dacian language spoken in the area that is now Romania, and the presence of similar structures in the neighboring languages.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/january/Romanian.html (1125 words)

	Romanian_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		According to the Constitution of Romania of 1991, as revised in 2003, Romanian is the official language of the Republic.
		In parts of Ukraine where Romanians constitute a significant share of the local population (districts in Chernivtsi, Odessa and Zakarpattia oblasts) the Romanian language is being taught in schools as a primary language and there are newspapers, TV, and radio broadcasting in Romanian.
		Romanian is also an official or administrative language in various communities and organisations (such as the Latin Union and the European Union - the latter as of 2007).
	www.school-explorer.com /Romenian (5070 words)

	Romanian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Romanian or Rumanian (Română) is an Eastern Romance language, spoken mainly in Romania, Moldova (where it is the official language) and neighbouring countries (Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Greece) but there are many emigrants of Romanian origin especially in Canada, Germany, Israel, United States and Australia.
		The Romanian alphabet is phonetic, with one exception.
		This is the sole exception from the phonetic principle of the Romanian alphabet.
	www.explainthat.info /ro/romanian-language.html (844 words)

	Romanian - Language Directory
		All dialects of Romanian are believed to have been unified in a common language until sometime between the 7th and the 10th century when Slavonic languages interfered with Romanian.
		alphabet, and has five additional letters (these are not diacriticals, but letters in their own right).
		Romanian Verb Inflections - A document describing the verb inflections of Aromanian, Dacoromanian, Meglenoromanian and Istroromanian.
	language-directory.50webs.com /languages/romanian.htm (541 words)

	ROMANIAN PHRASE GUIDE (spelling attempted according to phonetic sound; accents mark stressed syllables)
		The Romanian people and language were born in the last centuries of the 1st millennium, on the country's present territory, as a result of the Romanization of the indigenous Dacian population, and the gradual assimilation of Slav and other elements.
		Romanian was written in Cyrillic alphabet since around 1500, until 300 years later, with a few attempts to reintroduce the Latin letters in the 16th and 18th centuries; in 1780 a Romanian Grammar was printed in Latin alphabet.
		After various stages of perfectionization, the present Romanian writing is that stabilized by the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania and approved by the Council of Ministers in 1953, with additions in 1965.
	www.travelnet.co.il /Romania/10-Language.htm (271 words)

	Window to Romania - The Romanian Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Romanian alphabet has four extra letters, its pronunciation follows no set pattern, its distinctions in gender are more easily evident in the Romanian, its reflexive pronouns are extremely complex, and numerous verbs are irregular.
		Romanian is also similar to Albanian morphology and phonology and includes derivatives of Albanian words that denote body parts, kinship, plants and animals and, most significantly, shepherd words.
		Owing to their position, the Romanians south of the Danube were the first to be mentioned in historical sources (the 10th century), under the name of vlahi or blahi (Wallachians); this name shows they were speakers of a Romance language and that the non-Roman peoples around them recognized this fact.
	www.windowtoromania.org /rolang.asp (519 words)

	Romanian literature - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1541 a catechism in Romanian was issued at Sibiu, and from 1560 liturgical works were published in Romanian to meet the needs of the local Calvinist Church.
		In 1860 Latin replaced Cyrillic as the official Romanian alphabet (the church used the Cyrillic until 1890); 1860 thus marks the beginning of modern Romanian literature.
		Romanian literature beyond the nation: Mircea Cartarescu's Europeanism and Cosmopolitanism.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-romnilit.html (775 words)

	ASU Romanian Program
		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.
		The Romanian literary language is based on the Daco-Romanian of the historic region of Walachia, in southern Romania.
		Romanian also has some characteristics common to the languages spoken in the Balkan Peninsula (most of which are not Romance languages), such as the placement of the definite article after the noun.
	www.public.asu.edu /~orlich/language.html (386 words)

	Overview of the Romanian Language to Help You Learn Romanian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Romanian (also spelled Rumanian) is the official language of Romania, a country on the eastern half of the Balkan Peninsula.
		Romanian is spoken by about 20 million people and holds a special status as the only Romance language in Eastern Europe.
		There are four dialects of Romanian: Daco-Romanian, which is the basic standard language; Aromanian or Macedo-Romanian, which is spoken in scattered communities in Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria; Megleno-Romanian, which is a nearly extinct dialect spoken in Northern Greece; and Istro-Romanian, which is spoken on the Istrian Peninsula of Croatia.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/romanian/overview.htm (581 words)

	Romanian language - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Most words in Romanian vocabulary (about 75%) are of Latin origin, but it also contains many words borrowed from its Slavonic neighbours and also from German, Hungarian, Turkish, French and English.
		As in Italian, pronouns are generally omitted in Romanian unless required to disambiguate the meaning of a sentence.
		The Romanian alphabet is phonetic, so the words are read nearly as in Italian/Latin (with the exception of the quasi-diacrticals).
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Romanian_language (815 words)

	The IstroRomanians: Alphabet
		The IstroRomanian alphabet is based on the standard Romanian alphabet and thus the pronunciation of most letters is quite similar.
		These sounds are, however, found in spoken Romanian in certain areas of the country but are not considered part of the standardized language.
		This sound doesn't exist in standard Romanian thou it is found in Aromanian and MacedoRomanian and in dialectal variations of Romanian.
	www.istro-romanian.net /alphabet.html (945 words)

	Romanian phrasebook - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Romanian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Romania and Moldova, as well as in some parts of Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
		The Romanian alphabet is nearly exactly the same as the English alphabet, even though it has five extra accented letters, or diacriticals, ă (like the a in english word musical), ş (like the sh in english), ţ (like the ts in english), â, î (have the same reading, like a short ă).
		Romanian linguists are proud that Romanian is a Romance language in a sea of Slavs.
	wikitravel.org /en/Romanian_phrasebook (2038 words)

	Romanian alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Romanian alphabet is a modification of the Latin alphabet and consists of 28 letters:
		During the communist regime, the Romanian government largely eliminated the letter â, replacing it with î everywhere except for the name of the country, which remained România.
		After the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, the Romanian Academy decided to reintroduce â from 1993 onward, in accordance to the 1904 spelling reform, thus cancelling the effects of the 1949 spelling reform.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romanian_alphabet (1047 words)

	The Romanian Language
		Romanian is a Romance language which has incorporated a large number of Slavic words.
		One factor that makes the written words of Romanian look more different than from other Romance language words is the special characters of the Romanian alphabet.
		The spelling of Romanian words differs from English speakers expectations because of different phonetic values for the characters or character combinations common to the Romanian and English alphabets.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/romanian.htm (220 words)

	BigRedGarage.com - Learn to Speak Romanian with Pimsleur Romanian Language Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Romanian is spoken by about 22 million people in Romania, where it is the official language, by 3 million people in Moldova, and by perhaps another 1 million persons scattered in Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Yugoslavia (now Serbia and Montenegro), and Hungary.
		Romanian is a member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
		The Pimsleur course is the Standard Romanian dialect--the dialect of educate speakers, government and media.
	www.bigredgarage.com /romanian.htm (269 words)

	Edge Translation
		The Romanian alphabet is a modified version of the Latin alphabet.
		Romanian is identical to the official form of the Moldovan language spoken in the Republic of Moldova apart from a minor rule in spelling.
		The letters Q, W and Y only occur in foreign words and are not included in the 28 letters of the Latin alphabet.
	www.edgetranslation.net /romanian1.htm (235 words)

	Alphabet \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
		There are other systems of writing such as logosyllabic writing, in which each symbol represents a morpheme, or word or a syllable or places the word within a category, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable.
		Un alphabet (de alpha et bêta, les deux premières lettres de l'alphabet grec) est un ensemble de symboles utilisé pour représenter plus ou moins précisément les phonèmes d'une langue.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Alphabet/All (477 words)

	Romanian Alphabet & Vocabulary
		The Romanian Alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet to which there were added other five letters, Ă, Â, Î, Ş, Ţ.
		The Romanian Alphabet is phonetic with some exceptions of the groups of letters ce, ci, che, chi, ge, gi, ghe, ghi.
		About 70% of the Romanian vocabulary is of Latin origin but there were added many borrowings from Slavic languages (in the sphere of religious terms), from Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, french and more recently from English.
	www.learnromanian.ro /english/Romanian-vocabulary-alphabet.php (216 words)

	[alst-l] From Greek Helsinki Monitor
		The recognition took the form of a formal exchange of letters between the Greek and the Romanian Prime Ministers, that were subsequently attached to the Treaty of Bucarest (1913).
		Following the emergence of Romanian nationalism in the mid-XIX century, however, there was an effort to create a Romanian, or at least a distinct, non-Greek, national consciousness among Vlachs in the Southern Balkans.
		Moreover, many prefer the use of the term Vlachophone Greeks to Vlachs: the latter is perceived as indicating a separate identity, hence the opposition by some to the creation of Vlach cultural associations in the 1980s, thought of as efforts to ‘de-Hellenize’ the Vlachs.
	www.alb-net.com /pipermail/alst-l/1999-February/000030.html (2572 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Linguistics - Istro-Romanian
		The Istro-Romanian alphabet is based on the standard Romanian alphabet and thus the pronunciation of most letters is quite similar.
		The letter is correctly written as one character and not as the letter L with an apostrophe (').
		This sound does not exist in standard Romanian, but is found in Aromanian and Macedo-Romanian and in dialectal variations of Romanian.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/linguistics/istrorumeno/alphabet.htm (2485 words)

	ROMANIAN LITERATURE. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The mainspring of this movement was Ion Eliade (1802–72), known as Radulescu, and its outcome was a dictionary of the Romanian language produced (1871–76) by August Laurianu et al., in which all words of non-Latin origin were eliminated.
		Other outstanding names in drama are Ion Luca Caragiale, a master of the comedy of manners; Ronetti Roman (1853–1908), author of the tragedy Manasse (1900), dealing with the conflict of Jews and Christians in Romania; Victor Eftimiu, who experimented with poetic drama; and Lucian Blaga.
		The contrast between rural and urban life was detailed in the realistic novels Dinu Millian by Constantin Mille and Parasites (1893) by Barbu Delavrancea (1858–1919).
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ro/Romnilit.html (518 words)

	NL23_3: Aromanian Writing System
		Because of the belief, at that time, that the Aromanian is a dialect of the Romanian language, it was natural to use the Romanian alphabet as the basis of the system of writing.
		Compared to the traditional Aromanian alphabet, it was easy, because they could use it without difficulty, first with the typewriter and later, with the personal computer, where writing of diacritical signs is prohibitively difficult.
		While the use of the traditional alphabets is still present, mostly in one of the Balkan countries, Romania, the vast majority of Aromanians are using new alphabets without diacritical signs.
	www.farsarotul.org /nl23_3.htm (5080 words)

	Romanian Language
		Romanian Speakers: In Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Moldavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Canada, the United States, and Australia.
		Romanian Dialects: Daco-Romanian has four dialects spoken in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Moldova, called Moldavian.
		Romanian Language History: In the 6th century B.C., there are records of the Geto-Dacians, an ethno-historical entity branched out from the great Thracian trunk.
	www.online-languagetranslators.com /romanian_language.htm (198 words)

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