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| Romanian | |
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| română | |
| Native to | Romania, Moldova, Vojvodina, Canada, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Serbia, Hungary, the Balkans. |
| Region | Southeastern Europe |
| Native speakers | approx. 24 million |
| Language family | Indo-European
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| Official status | |
| Official language in | Romania, Moldova , Vojvodina (Serbia) |
| Regulated by | Academia Română |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | ro |
| ISO 639-2 | rum (B) ron (T) |
| ISO 639-3 | ron |
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Vlach (Влашки/Vlaški in Serbian; ISO code:none; ISO 639 code: none; Ethnologue code: none) is the term sometimes used to designate the language spoken by the Vlachs of Serbia. While it is identical to modern Romanian (particularly the Oltenian dialect), in Serbia, it is designated as a separate language. In the 2002 census, 40,054 people in Serbia declared themselves ethnic Vlachs and 54,818 people declared themselves speakers of the Vlach language. Romanian is recognized as a separate language in Serbia and according to the latest census, the number of its speakers was 34,515, while 34,576 people declared themselves as ethnic Romanians. The declared Vlach speakers are mostly concentrated in eastern Serbia, mainly in the Timočka Krajina region and adjacent areas, while declared Romanian speakers are mostly concentrated in Vojvodina.
The term Vlach language(s) is also often used to refer to Eastern Romance languages in general, which includes Romanian.
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- The constitution of the Republic of Moldova refers to the country's language as Moldovan rather than Romanian, though in practice it is often called "Romanian". The introduction of the law concerning the functioning of the languages (September 1989), still effective in Moldova according to the Constitution , asserts the linguistic identity between the Romanian language and the Moldovan language. For more information, see History of the Moldovan language.