Language/Romanian

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Welcome to the Romanian learning page!

You will find below many free resources to learn and practice this language.

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Facts about Romanian

Language code (ISO 639-3): ron
Autonyms (how to write "Romanian" in Romanian): Limba Română / Română
Other names for "Romanian": Daco-Romanian, Limba româna, Româneste, Rumanian, Româna, Moldovan, Roumanian, Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian
The Romanian language is spoken in: Romania

Romanian is a Balkan Romance language spoken by approximately 24–26 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language.

According to another estimate, there are about 34 million people worldwide who can speak Romanian, of whom 30 million speak it as a native language.

It is an official and national language of both Romania and Moldova and is one of the official languages of the European Union.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language

Romanian Dictionaries

• Dex: Dicționar explicativ al limbii române, Explinatory dictionary of the Romanian language: meanings, etymology

• Dor: Dicționar ortografic al limbii române, Orthographic dictionary of the Romanian language

• Archeus: Romanian dictionaries & synonyms

• Vocabular: Romanian dictionaries & synonyms

• Lingea: Romanian-English dictionary

• Dictionare.com: Romanian-English dictionary & noun declension, verb conjugation

• Iate: multilingual terminological dictionary (European Union)

• Dicționar ortografic al limbii române: Orthographic dictionary of the Romanian language (2001)

• Rumanian, a guide to the spoken language, published by the U.S. War Departement (1943)

• Loecsen: Romanian-English common phrases (+ audio)

• Goethe-Verlag: Romanian-English common phrases & illustrated vocabulary (+ audio)

• Rumanian English and English Rumanian dictionary by Marcel Schönkron (1952)

• Lesicon romănescu-lătinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu, Lexicon valachico-latino-hungarico-germanicum, or Lexicon of Buda (Romanian-Latin-Hungarian-German) (1825) (or Google)

• The Lexicon of Buda: a glimpse into the beginnings of mainstream Romanian lexicography, by Bogdan Harhătă, Maria Aldea, Lilla Marta Vremir, Daniel-Corneliu Leucuta, in Euralex (2012)

• Dictionariu rumanesc, lateinesc, si unguresc: Romanian-Latin-Hungarian dictionary by Ioan Bobb (1823) A-L & M-Z

• Dicționaru limbii românești, etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme [PDF] dictionary of the Romanian language, by August Scriban (1939)

• Cartea Românească, dicționarul enciclopedic ilustratartea [PDF] illustrated encyclopedic dictionary, by Ioan-Aurel Candrea (1931) A-C - D-G - H-L - M-P - R-S - T-Z

• Dicționar universal al limbei române: universal dictionary of the Romanian language, by Lazăr Șăineanu (1929)

• Dictionnaire d'étymologie daco-romane: etymological dictionary by Alexandru Cihac (1879)

• Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache: etymological dictionary of the Romanian language, by Sextil Pușcariu (1905)

• Dicționar onomastic romînesc: onomastic dictionary by Nicolae Constantinescu (1963)

• Nume de persoane: personal names, by Alexandru Graur (1965)

• papers about the Romanian vocabulary, by Dan Ungureanu (2015)

• Romanian and the Gallo-Italic dialects

• Common lexic in Romanian and Albanian, substrate and loanwords

• Old Turkic hydronyms in Romania

• Loanwords in Romanian by Kim Schulte (2009)

• Dicționar de proverbe și zicători românești: dictionary of Romanian proverbs and sayings (2001)

• Proverbele românilor: Romanian proverbs, by Jules Zanne (1895-1912): I & II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - VIII - IX - X