Bună!
say it: “BOO-nuh”
Romanian
in its own words: română
- Speakers
- 25 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Romance
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Republic of, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Moldova, Republic of, Romania, Serbia (regional)
Fun fact
Romanian is an Eastern Romance language descended from Latin, surrounded mostly by Slavic languages and Hungarian; Slavic loans form a significant part of its vocabulary.