Romanian is easy to read or pronounce , since it is a phonetic language . The words are pronounced exactly as they are spelt . There are only five “ special ” letters , two consonants ( ș pronounced “ sh ” and ț pronounced “ ts ”) and three vowels : ă ( pronounced as the indefinite article “ a ” in English ), as well as “ â and î ” ( both pronounced as the vowel in the last syllable of the English word “ modern ”).
There are four dialects of Romanian spoken in the Balkanic countries
These are Aromanian , Megleno-Romanian and Istro- Romanian , spoken in countries like Serbia , Albania , Greece , Kosovo , Bulgaria and Croatia .
In the 10th-12th century , Slavic alphabet replaced the Latin one , and the oldest writing in Romanian is considered to be a letter in 1521