Romanian

ro · română

Romanian (ro) is written in the Latin script and has an estimated 20M speakers. It is an official language in Romania and Moldova. CLDR has 3 locales for it.

Native nameromână
ScriptLatinLatn
Speakers20Mestimated
Countries8
Locales3
Plural forms3one, few, other

Overview

Code
ro
Native name
română
Script
Latin Latn
Likely region
🇷🇴 Romania
Direction
Left to right
Plural categories
  • one
  • few
  • other
Ordinal categories
  • one
  • other

Where it is spoken

CountryStatusShare of population
🇷🇴 RomaniaOfficial90%
🇲🇩 MoldovaOfficial63%
🇮🇱 Israel3.7%
🇷🇸 SerbiaOfficial (regional)2.1%
🇭🇺 Hungary0.99%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.8%
🇺🇦 Ukraine0.52%
🇨🇦 Canada0.32%

Plural categories

CategoryExamples
one1
few0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, …
other20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, …