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Well I speak Romanian but I seriously doubt anyone else here does.  Romanian actually is in its own sub-branch of Romance languages, with four living variants - Romanian, Moldovan, Aromanian and Istro-Romanian.  Plus the "odd cousin" called Vlach or Degleno-Romanian, which is spoken in Greece.

It is an official language in Romania, Moldova and the autonomous region of Vojvodina in Serbia.

I'm always amazed us Americans can learn anything but English since we're raised in such a monocultural environment.  I'm proud of my parents for learning some Spanish in their "old age"! :)  Gosh and my father has spoken nothing but English his entire life with maybe a "grazie" or "merci" mixed in there.

Pax

Night and day you can find me Flogging the Simian

by soj on Mon Aug 15th, 2005 at 03:54:35 PM EST
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How closely does Romanian relate to the other romance languages?

Superficially, it seems closest to French - just having seen Romanian written.

Or is it much diff't than Spanish, Portugese, French, and Italian altogether - ie a whole different branch from these four which share more with each other than any of them - individually do - with Romanian?

by Ben P (wbp@u.washington.edu) on Tue Aug 16th, 2005 at 12:43:19 AM EST
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Romanian speakers here. I'm trying to encourage a few to join up. As for Vlachs, they are in Bulgaria as well and are recognized as one of our minorities.

Poemless, you are very kind. My Bulgarian is good, but not yet fluent.

by gradinski chai on Tue Aug 16th, 2005 at 04:04:51 AM EST
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I'm encouraging a Romanian speaker to get interested in ET too.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Aug 16th, 2005 at 12:36:26 PM EST
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