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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by liviu on Saturday November 23, 2013 @06:58PM (#6787991)
In "The Grammar of Romanian"[1] book, Romanian language contains the following: 20 percent inherited Latin, 11.5 percent Slavic, 3.6 percent Turkish, 2.17 percent Hungarian, 43 percent Romance borrowings (mainly French - 38.4 percent).

The lexical similarity of Romanian with Italian has been estimated at 77%, followed by French at 75%, Sardinian 83%, Catalan 73%, Portuguese and Rhaeto-Romance 72%, Spanish 71%. In modern times Romanian vocabulary has been strongly influenced by French, Italian and other languages.

More on wikipedia if you are interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language

BTW, are you Spanish?

[1] http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199644926.do

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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by mariuolo on Sunday November 24, 2013 @02:59PM (#6790853)
Very interesting, I'll try to read up more.

>BTW, are you Spanish?

Nope, Italian.

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