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Romanian
(Rumanian)
Family/group:
Indo-European (Romance)
Number
of speakers:
25 million
Where spoken:
Romania, Moldavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Script
Cyrillic up to 1859 thenRoman
Although
closely related to Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, it is the only
Romance language to have developed in eastern Europe. For this reason, it
is sometimes classified as Balkan Romance. It shares approximately 70
percent of its vocabulary with the other Romance languages.
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