Romanian

also spelled RUMANIAN, Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova. Four principal dialects may be distinguished: Daco-Romanian, the basis of the standard language, spoken in Romania and Moldova in several regional variants; Aromanian, or Macedo-Romanian, spoken in scattered communities in Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria; Megleno-Romanian, a nearly extinct dialect of northern Greece; and Istro-Romanian, also nearly extinct, spoken on the Istrian Peninsula of Croatia. Mutual intelligibility between the major dialects is difficult; the MeglenoRomanian, Istro-Romanian, and Aromanian are sometimes classed as languages distinct from Romanian proper, or Daco-Romanian, which has many slightly varying dialects of its own. Moldavian is a form of Daco-Romanian spoken in Moldova and is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. (Encyclopжdia Britannica, Inc.)

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