What is the Transylvanian accent?
What is the Transylvanian accent?
The Transylvanian varieties of Romanian (subdialectele / graiurile transilvănene) are a group of dialects of the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian). These varieties cover the historical region of Transylvania, except several large areas along the edges towards the neighboring dialects.
What does Romanian sound like to foreigners?
The Romanian language sounds a lot like a language like Italian in terms of melody, pronunciation, and individual words, but it’s also got a strong Slavic influence which is reflected in some of the sounds of the language. This leads many to think that Romanian is a Slavic language, which it isn’t.
Are there Russian speakers in Romania?
Around 0.1% of Romanians, or 35.000 people, the Lipovan (Russian) immigrants who mostly live in the Tulcea country of Eastern Romania speak Russian as their mother tongue. Russian is spoken as a second language by a really small percentage of Romanians of the older generation.
Is Romanian like Russian?
Having said that, in my opinion Russian and Romanian are very VERY different, they belong to 2 different language groups, the former being a slavic language, the latter a romance language with a strong latin imprint (it’s the only romance language that maintains the latin declension).
Is Romanian The most beautiful language?
Simply because Romanian is one of the most beautiful languages of the world if you make time to understand it. The Slavic influence has made this language the most unique one in the Latin language family, is similar to all of them, but mostly different from all of them.
Which language is Romanian most similar to?
Italian
Romance language Compared with the other Romance languages, the closest relative of Romanian is Italian.
Are Spanish and Romanian similar?
Cognates. Because Romanian and Spanish are both Romance languages, you will find many cognates, or words that are spelled or pronounced similarly and mean the same thing. In fact, the lexical similarities of the two languages is about 70% by most counts.
Is Ukrainian similar to Romanian?
Ukrainians are very similar to Romanians in many ways. Of course, we have also some shared post-communist history, makes them in a way very familiar.