Romanian

Romanian may refer to:

• anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
  • Romanians, an ethnic group
  • Romanian language, a Romance language
    • Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
  • Romanian cuisine, traditional foods
  • Romanian folklore
  • Romanian mythology, traditional religion
• Romanian (stage), a stage in the Paratethys stratigraphy of Central and Eastern Europe
• The Romanian newspaper
• The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, a 2004 novel by Bruce Benderson

Romanian (obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; autonym: română, limba română , "the Romanian language", or românește, lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language. It has official status in Romania, the Republic of Moldova, the unrecognized state of Transnistria, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia, and the autonomous monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It is one of the official languages of the European Union and the Latin Union.