Romanian is indeed a member of the Romance language family, evolving from Vulgar Latin due to the Roman Empire’s influence in the region.

Romania is the obvious home of the Romanian language, but it is also spoken in Moldova, where it is an official language as well. The language was formerly known as Moldovan.

Romanian is the only Romance language spoken in Eastern Europe. Due to its isolation, it is the most distinct among the major Romance languages.

While many Romance languages have masculine and feminine grammatical genders, Romanian—like Latin—features three: masculine, feminine, and neuter.

Romanian has incorporated many Slavic loanwords, along with Turkish, Greek, and Hungarian influences that have altered its vocabulary. Today, about 60% of Romanian words are derived from Latin.

Romanian uses the Latin alphabet but includes unique letters—modified forms of a, i, s, and t. However, Old Romanian once used the Cyrillic alphabet, similar to Russian.

The first Romanian Bible was published in 1688.

Romanian grammar includes four ways to express the future tense.

In the 19th century, Romanians began borrowing a significant number of words from French.