Romanian

Eastern European language

Romanian refers to people, culture, or language of Romania, a country in southeastern Europe.

The Romanian language descends from Latin, making it the easternmost Romance language—closer to Italian than to its Slavic neighbors.

As a noun, a Romanian is a person from Romania: My Romanian grandmother still makes sarmale for holidays.

country

Bucharest

Romania's governmental seat

Black Sea · Moldavia · Dacia · Dracula

ethnicity

Thracian

Ancient Balkan region native

traditions · folklore · customs · embroidery · Hungarian minority · Jewish community · identity

language

Cyrillic

Slavic alphabet system

Moldovan · diacritics · vowels · subjunctive · phonology · vocabulary · grammar · syntax · inflection

culture

Ionesco

Absurdist dramatist from Romania

pottery · iconography · carpet weaving · Easter traditions · Orthodox Christianity

Categories
Opposites
neighboring/regional rivalry

RomanianHungarian

Central European language

Bulgarian · Serbian · Russian · Turkish · Slavic

Romance language isolation

RomanianFrench

Of or from Paris's nation

Spanish · Italian · Portuguese · Iberian · Gallic

Phrases
Family

Romania, Romanians

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G