Romanian alphabet | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Romanian alphabet


00:01:19 1 Letters and their pronunciation
00:02:06 2 Special letters
00:03:26 2.1 Î versus Â
00:08:38 2.2 Comma-below (ș and ț) versus cedilla (ş and ţ)
00:09:42 2.3 Obsolete letters
00:14:36 2.4 Other diacritics
00:15:48 3 Digital typography
00:15:58 3.1 ISO 8859
00:16:55 3.2 Unicode and HTML
00:18:40 3.2.1 Adobe/Linotype/Vista de facto standard
00:20:17 3.2.2 OpenType ROM/locl feature
00:21:59 3.2.3 Combining characters
00:22:30 3.3 (La)TeX
00:25:35 3.4 Keyboard layout
00:25:44 4 Phonetic alphabet
00:26:13 5 See also



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The Romanian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used by the Romanian language. It is a modification of the classical Latin alphabet and consists of 31 letters, five of which (Ă, Â, Î, Ș, and Ț) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language:

The letters Q (chiu), W (dublu v), and Y (igrec or i grec) were formally introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982, although they had been used earlier. They occur only in foreign words and their Romanian derivatives, such as quasar, watt, and yacht. The letter K, although relatively older, is also rarely used and appears only in proper names and international neologisms such as kilogram, broker, karate. These four letters are still perceived as foreign, which explains their usage for stylistic purposes in words such as nomenklatură (normally nomenclatură, meaning "nomenclature", but sometimes spelled with k instead of c if referring to members of the Communist leadership in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries, as Nomenklatura is used in English).In cases where the word is a direct borrowing having diacritical marks not present in the above alphabet, official spelling tends to favor their use (München, Angoulême etc., as opposed to the use of Istanbul over İstanbul).