Varieties of the Romanian language

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Romanian dialects/varieties are not as varied as in many other Romance languages.^{[citation needed]} Romanians themselves refer to them as graiuri or speeches/varieties rather than dialects. The differences between the varieties of Daco-Romanian are small^[1] and mainly in vocabulary and in phonology, as the grammar is almost identical all over the area inhabited by Romanians. This makes the Romanian language mutually intelligible over the entire territory inhabited by Romanians.

Romanian is divided into several "graiuri" ('speeches'):

• the northern varieties - Moldavia, Banat and most of Transylvania
  • Banat (bănăţeană)
  • Maramureş (maramureşeană)
  • Moldavia (moldoveneşte) -- also spoken in the northern part of Dobruja by refugees from Bessarabia
  • Ardeal (Transylvania) (ardeleneşte)
• the southern varieties - in Southern Transylvania (Făgăraş and Braşov areas), Wallachia and southern part of Dobruja
  • Muntenia (munteneşte) -- spoken in Bucharest and the basis of the standard language.
  • Oltenia (olteneşte)
  • Timoc valley in Serbia

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