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Romanian Is One of the 23 Official Languages of the EU

With the admission of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Romanian and Bulgarian also became official languages of the Union. Romanian in particular could inside of the next decade develop into a similarly important language within the EU like the Western Romance languages of Italian, Spanish and French.

Romanian is spoken by approx. 30 million people as their native language. Of them, 21 million live in Romania, 4 million in Moldavia and another million in the surrounding states. The Moldavian language which is the official language in Moldavia is identical to the Romanian in all but name.

The closest related language is Italian. Romanians can usually understand simple Italian rather well. The inverse of this succeeds less frequently, as the Romanian has acquired some Slavic words. Moreover, spoken language in the Romanian differs from Italian speech. Both languages use the Latin alphabet, but a variety of special characters are still used in the Romanian in order to distinguish the sounds coming from the Slavic.

As a written language, Romanian can be divided into two categories: "cultured" (culta) and "colloquial" (populara). This distinction can be important depending on the type of translation.