Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Romanian grammar, Controversy over linguistic and ethnic identity in Moldova, Romanian nouns, Romanian numbers, Romanian alphabet, Romanian phonology, Slavic superstratum in Romanian, Name of Romania, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, Romanianization, Nosferatu, Romanian profanity, Moldovan schools in Transnistria, Historical Romanian ranks and titles, Romanian exonyms, Romanian verbs, Latin Union, Etymological list of counties of Romania, Boyash, Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet, T-comma, A, Name of Moldova, List of Romanian-language publishers, I, S-comma, D-comma, Romanian Cultural Institute, Dic ionarul explicativ al limbii romane. Excerpt: Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: roman, limba roman ("the Romanian language") or romane te (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova. It has official status in Romania, Republic of Moldova, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia and in the autonomous Mount Athos in Greece. In the Republic of Moldova, the language is officially called limba moldoveneasc ("Moldovan"). Romanian speakers are scattered across many other countries, notably Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Bulgaria, the United States, Canada, Israel, Russia, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The Dacian people were the ancient inhabitants of Romanian territory. They were defeated by the Romans in 106, and part of Dacia (Oltenia, Banat, and Transylvania) became a Roman province. This province, which was rich in ores, especially silver and gold, was colonized by the Romans, who brought with them Vulgar Latin as the language of administration and commerce, and who started a period of intense romanization, which gave birth to the proto-Romanian language. But in the 3rd century CE, under t...