The
Romanian dialects (
subdialecte or
graiuri) are the several
varieties of the
Romanian language (
Daco-Romanian). The dialects are divided into two types, northern and southern, but further subdivisions are less clear, so the number of dialects varies between two and occasionally twenty. Most recent works seem to favor a number of three clear dialects, corresponding to the regions of
Wallachia,
Moldavia, and
Banat (all of which actually extend into
Transylvania), and an additional group of varieties covering the remainder of Transylvania, two of which are more clearly distinguished, in
Crișana and
Maramureș, that is, a total of five.