Is Romania a Slavic or Latin culture?

Having spent a couple of months in Bucharest and a few more months in Moscow I certainly wouldn't call Romania Slavic. However Romania really did cause me to ask what being “Latin” means. Romanian is very evidently a Latin language. It shares a large part of its word stock with Italian and French. read more

You can say Romania has eastern European culture, but that doesn't make it Slavic. Not all Slavic nations have eastern European culture, just like not all eastern European nations are Slavic. I would say an eastern European country with a romance language. read more

Our language is a Neo-Latin one, but we are massively influenced by our Slavic overlay: traditions, food and I believe there are more words of Slavic origin in our vocabulary than of Dacian one (our underlay). read more

The Slavic influence on Romanian is noticeable on all linguistic levels: lexis, phonetics, morphology and syntax. This is due to the migration of Slavic tribes who traversed the territory of present-day Romania during the 6th century AD, corresponding with the formative stage of Eastern Romance. read more