Publisher's Synopsis
(or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: româna, limba româna ['limba ro'm?n?] ( listen) ("the Romanian language") or române?te (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language.[4][5] 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, besides the term limba româna, the language is also often called limba moldoveneasca ("Moldovan"); to avoid the political overtones both terms have in that country, a compromise solution has been to call it limba de stat ("the state language").
