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Sigma KEE - RomanianLanguage
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RomanianLanguage
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The RomanianLanguage is an EasternRomanceLanguage of Romania. SIL code: RUM. ISO 639-1: mo. ISO 639-2: mol. ISO 639-1: ro. ISO 639-2(B): rum. ISO 639-2(T): ron. Population: 20,520,000 in Romania, 90% of the population (1986). Population total all countries 26,000,000 (1999 WA). Region: Moldavian is in Moldova to the northeast, and Muntenian in Muntenia, or Wallachia in the southeast, other dialects in the north and west, including much of Transylvania. Also spoken in Australia, Azerbaijan, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia (Europe), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia. Alternate names: RUMANIAN, MOLDAVIAN, DACO-RUMANIAN. Dialects: MOLDAVIAN, MUNTENIAN (WALACHIAN), TRANSYLVANIAN, BANAT, BAYASH. Comments: Romanian has 77% lexical similarity with Italian, 75% with French, 74% with Sardinian, 73% with Catalan, 72% with Portuguese and Rheto-Romance, 71% with Spanish. The Bayash are Gypsies who have lost their language and now speak Romanian based on the Banat dialect with Romani and Hungarian influences. National language. Grammar. SVO. Deciduous forest. Mountain slope. Peasant agriculturalists, other. Christian. Bible 1688-1989. Also spoken in: Hungary. (Language name: ROMANIAN.) Population: 100,000 in Hungary (1995 Iosif Bena). Alternate names: RUMANIAN, DACO-ROMANIAN, MOLDAVIAN. Dialects: BAYASH ROMANIAN. Comments: The Bayash are ex-slave Roma who worked in houses, and were forbidden to speak Romani. The Bayash speak a very distinctive kind of Romanian. Substantial literature in Bayash. Radio programs. Bible 1688-1989. Also spoken in: Israel. (Language name: ROMANIAN.) Population: 250,000 in Israel (1993 Statistical Abstract of Israel). Comments: Bilingualism in Hebrew. Elderly speakers use Hebrew as second language but prefer Romanian. Radio programs. Jewish. Bible 1688-1989. Also spoken in: Moldova. (Language name: ROMANIAN.) Population: 2,664,000 in Moldova (1979 census). Alternate names: MOLDAVAN, ROUMANIAN, RUMANIAN. Dialects: MOLDAVAN (MOLDOVIAN, MOLDOVEAN), MUNTENIAN (WALACHIAN, MUNTEAN), BANAT, BAYASH, CHRISHANA, MARAMURESH, OLTENIA-LESSER WALLACHIA (OLTEAN). Comments: Little dialect variation. The Bayash are Gypsies who speak a dialect based on Banat, but influenced by Romani and Hungarian. Many Gypsies in Moldova and southern Ukraine speak Moldavan as mother tongue. Called 'Moldavan' in Moldova. National language. Cyrillic script was replaced by Roman script in 1989. Christian. Bible 1688-1984. Also spoken in: Ukraine. (Language name: ROMANIAN.) Population: 250,000 or fewer in Ukraine (1999). Alternate names: RUMANIAN, MOLDAVIAN, DACO-ROMANIAN. Comments: Mountain slope. Bible 1688-1989. Also spoken in: Yugoslavia. (Language name: ROMANIAN.) Population: 200,000 to 300,000 in Yugoslavia (1995 Iosif Bena). Alternate names: RUMANIAN, MOLDAVIAN, DACO-RUMANIAN. Comments: Radio programs, TV. Bible 1688-1989.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | ContentBearingPhysical | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| | EasternRomanceLanguage | Of the 47 RomanceLanguages, four of these are classified as an EasternRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | Entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | HumanLanguage | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | IndoEuropeanLanguage | There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | ItalicLanguage | An ItalicLanguage is any of 48 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | Language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| | LanguageFamily | A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family) |
| | LinguisticExpression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| | NaturalLanguage | The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages. |
| | Physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
| | RomanceLanguage | Of the 48 ItalicLanguages, 47 of these are classified as a RomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
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