Editing Romanian language (section)

=== Lexis ===

[[File:CuvinteleLimbiiRomane.svg|thumb|upright=1.35|right|Romanian's core lexicon (2,581 words); Marius Sala, ''VRLR'' (1988)]]
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A 1988 statistic by Marius Sala is based on 2,581 words chosen on the criteria of frequency, semantic richness and productivity, which also contain words formed on the territory of the Romanian language. This statistic gives the percentages below:<ref name="VRLR" />

* 30.33% – words inherited from [[Classical Latin|Latin]];
* 15.26% – academic [[loanwords]] from [[Classical Latin|Latin]];
* 22.12% – [[French language|French]] loans;
* 9.18% – loans from [[Old Church Slavonic]];
* 3.95% – loans from [[Italian language|Italian]];
* 3.91% – words formed in Romanian;
* 2.71% – words of uncertain origin;
* 2.6% – loans from [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]];
* 2.47% – loans from [[German language|German]] (including [[Austrian German|Austrian High German]]);
* 1.7% – loans from [[Greek language|Greek]];
* 1.43% – loans from [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]];
* 1.12% – loans from [[Russian language|Russian]];
* 0.96% – words inherited from the [[Classification of Thracian|Thraco-Dacian]] substratum;
* 0.85% – loans from [[Serbian language|Serbian]];
* 0.73% – loans from [[Turkish language|Turkish]]

If the analysis is restricted to a core vocabulary of 2,500 frequent, semantically rich and productive words, then the Latin inheritance comes first, followed by Romance and classical Latin neologisms, whereas the Slavic borrowings come third.

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| title = Romanian according to word origin<ref name="VRLR">Marius Sala (coord), Mihaela Bîrlădeanu, Maria Iliescu, Liliana Macarie, Ioana Nichita, Mariana Ploae-Hanganu, Maria Theban, Ioana Vintilă-Rădulescu, ''Vocabularul reprezentativ al limbilor romanice'' (VRLR) (Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, 1988).</ref><ref>Vocabularul reprezentativ diferă de vocabularul fundamental (VF) și de fondul principal lexical (FP). Cf. SCL (Studii și cercetări lingvistice), an XXVII (1976), nr. 1, p. 61-66 și SCL (1974) nr. 3, p. 247. Cf. Theodor Hristea, "Structura generală a lexicului românesc", ''Sinteze de limba română'', eds., Theodor Hristea (coord.), Mioara Avram, Grigore Brâncuș, Gheorghe Bulgăr, Georgeta Ciompec, Ion Diaconescu, Rodica Bogza-Irimie & Flora Șuteu (Bucharest: 1984), 13.</ref>
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Although they are rarely used nowadays, the [[Romanian calendar]] used to have the traditional Romanian month names, unique to the language.<ref>*''[[Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române]]'', [[Romanian Academy|Academia Română]], Institutul de Lingvistică "Iorgu Iordan", Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 1998</ref>

The [[longest word in Romanian]] is {{lang|ro|pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconioză}}, with 44 letters,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bălhuc |first=Paul |date=15 January 2017 |title=Câte litere are cel mai lung cuvânt din limba română și care este singurul termen ce conține toate vocalele |language=ro |work=[[Adevărul]] |url=https://adevarul.ro/locale/iasi/cate-litere-mai-lung-cuvant-limba-romana-singurul-termen-contine-vocalele-1_587a0aa75ab6550cb86dda62/index.html |access-date=10 February 2021 |archive-date=17 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417211225/https://adevarul.ro/locale/iasi/cate-litere-mai-lung-cuvant-limba-romana-singurul-termen-contine-vocalele-1_587a0aa75ab6550cb86dda62/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> but the longest one admitted by the ''[[Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române]]'' ("Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language", DEX) is {{lang|ro|electroglotospectrografie}}, with 25 letters.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Electroglotospectrografie |encyclopedia=[[Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române]] |url=https://www.webdex.ro/online/dictionarul_explicativ_al_limbii_romane_dex98/51078/electroglotospectrografie |access-date=10 February 2021 |language=ro |archive-date=17 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417203237/https://www.webdex.ro/online/dictionarul_explicativ_al_limbii_romane_dex98/51078/electroglotospectrografie |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Curiozități lingvistice: cele mai lungi cuvinte din limba română |url=https://www.dictie.ro/curiozitati-lingvistice-cele-mai-lungi-cuvinte-din-limba-romana |access-date=10 February 2021 |website=Dicție.ro |date=2 December 2020 |language=ro |archive-date=10 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210080655/https://www.dictie.ro/curiozitati-lingvistice-cele-mai-lungi-cuvinte-din-limba-romana |url-status=live }}</ref>