Station
identification: "Aich Bucuresti, Radio Romania
Actualitati", (pronounced "I-eech ...")
The language of Romania.
The Romanian language is mainly derived from the Latin spoken in the ancient Roman province of Dacia, which roughly corresponds to modern-day Romania.
Romanian has four principal dialects: Daco-Romanian (or Romanian proper), spoken in Romania, parts of Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Hungary and (in a variant called Moldovan) in Moldova; Macedo-Romanian (or Aromanian), spoken in various Balkan countries with a small presence in Greece Northwest of Thessaloniki; Istro-Romanian, spoken on the Istrian Peninsula of Croatia. These dialects are classified by some linguists as independent languages.
Romanian still has some Latin traits lost in other Italic languages, notably the inflection of nouns. It has also absorbed an unusually large number of Slavic , Greek , Turkish , Hungarian , and Albanian words. This gives it a characteristic sound on-air.
Station
identification: "Aich Bucuresti, Radio Romania
Actualitati", (pronounced "I-eech ...")
| Name | Where spoken | Language Family | How many (000s) |
| Romanian (Rumanian, Arumanian, Moldavian) | Romania, Yugoslavia and surrounding areas | Indo-European (Romance) | 20-25m |
Table source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, David Ctystal, Cambridge University Press
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