Romanian is a Romance language, descended from the Latin spoken in the Roman province of Dacia, and the only major Romance language of Eastern Europe. It is official in Romania and in Moldova, where it was long called Moldovan for political reasons, and around 24 million people speak it. Romanian is written in the Latin alphabet; Moldova used Cyrillic during the Soviet period before switching back in 1989. Centuries of contact have layered Slavic, Turkish, Greek and Hungarian loanwords onto the Latin base, and the language keeps grammatical cases that its western Romance cousins lost. Migration since Romania joined the EU in 2007 has spread the language across Western Europe, and the 2021 Census recorded it among the most spoken main languages in England and Wales after English.
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