Raluca speaking Romanian

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This video was recorded by Nick Panzarella in Cluj Napoca, Romania, where he was travelling at the time. Romanian is spoken by at least 24 million people, primarily in the European nations of Romania, where it is nationally official, and Moldova, where it is typically called Moldovan. It is also spoken by diaspora communities worldwide. An Indo-European language of the Romance family, Romanian is descended from Latin and therefore related to languages like Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Romanian has been a literary language since at least the 16th century CE and is widely supported by operating systems and machine translation software today.

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