Editing Romanian language (section)

=== Romanian alphabet ===
{{Main|Romanian alphabet|Romanian braille}}
The Romanian alphabet is as follows:

:{|class="center wikitable" style="border-collapse:collapse"
|-
!colspan="31"| [[Capital letters]]
|-
| [[A]]
| [[Ă]]
| [[Â]]
| [[B]]
| [[C]]
| [[D]]
| [[E]]
| [[F]]
| [[G]]
| [[H]]
| [[I]]
| [[Î]]
| [[J]]
| [[K]]
| [[L]]
| [[M]]
| [[N]]
| [[O]]
| [[P]]
| [[Q]]
| [[R]]
| [[S]]
| [[Ș]]
| [[T]]
| [[Ț]]
| [[U]]
| [[V]]
| [[W]]
| [[X]]
| [[Y]]
| [[Z]]
|-
!colspan="31"| [[Lower case|Lower case letters]]
|-
| [[a]]
| [[ă]]
| [[â]]
| [[b]]
| [[c]]
| [[d]]
| [[e]]
| [[f]]
| [[g]]
| [[h]]
| [[i]]
| [[î]]
| [[j]]
| [[k]]
| [[l]]
| [[m]]
| [[n]]
| [[o]]
| [[p]]
| [[q]]
| [[r]]
| [[s]]
| [[ș]]
| [[t]]
| [[ț]]
| [[u]]
| [[v]]
| [[w]]
| [[x]]
| [[y]]
| [[z]]
|-
!colspan="31"| Phonemes
|-
| {{IPAslink|a}}
| {{IPAslink|ə}}
| {{IPAslink|ɨ}}
| {{IPAslink|b}}
| {{IPAslink|k}},<br />{{IPAslink|t͡ʃ}}
| {{IPAslink|d}}
| {{IPAslink|e}},<br />{{IPAslink|e̯}},<br />{{IPA|/je/}}
| {{IPAslink|f}}
| {{IPAslink|ɡ}},<br />{{IPAslink|d͡ʒ}}
| {{IPAslink|h}},<br />mute
| {{IPAslink|i}},<br />{{IPAslink|j}},<br />{{IPAslink|ʲ}}
| {{IPAslink|ɨ}}
| {{IPAslink|ʒ}}
| {{IPAslink|k}}
| {{IPAslink|l}}
| {{IPAslink|m}}
| {{IPAslink|n}}
| {{IPAslink|o}},<br />{{IPAslink|o̯}}
| {{IPAslink|p}}
| {{IPAslink|k}}
| {{IPAslink|r}}
| {{IPAslink|s}}
| {{IPAslink|ʃ}}
| {{IPAslink|t}}
| {{IPAslink|t͡s}}
| {{IPAslink|u}},<br />{{IPAslink|w}}
| {{IPAslink|v}}
| {{IPAslink|v}},<br />{{IPAslink|w}},<br />{{IPAslink|u}}
| {{IPA|/ks/,<br />/ɡz/}}
| {{IPAslink|j}},<br />{{IPAslink|i}}
| {{IPAslink|z}}
|}

K, Q, W and Y, not part of the native alphabet; they were officially introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982 and are mostly used to write loanwords like ''kilogram'', ''quasar'', ''watt'', and ''yoga''.

The Romanian alphabet is based on the [[Latin script]] with five additional letters {{lang|ro|[[Ă]]}}, {{lang|ro|[[Â]]}}, {{lang|ro|[[Î]]}}, {{lang|ro|[[Ș]]}}, {{lang|ro|[[Ț]]}}. Formerly, there were as many as 12 additional letters, but some of them were abolished in subsequent reforms. Also, until the early 20th century, a breve marker was used, which survives only in ă.

Today the Romanian alphabet is largely [[Phonemic orthography|phonemic]]. However, the letters ''â'' and ''î'' both represent the same [[close central unrounded vowel]] {{IPA|/ɨ/}}. ''Â'' is used only inside words;  ''î'' is used at the beginning or the end of non-compound words and in the middle of compound words. Another exception from a completely phonetic writing system is the fact that [[vowel]]s and their respective [[semivowel]]s are not distinguished in writing. In dictionaries the distinction is marked by separating the entry word into [[syllable]]s for words containing a [[Hiatus (linguistics)|hiatus]].

Stressed vowels also are not marked in writing, except very rarely in cases where by misplacing the stress a word might change its meaning and if the meaning is not obvious from the context. For example, ''trei copíi'' means "three children" while ''trei cópii'' means "three copies".