Romanian language in Serbia
status of the Romanian language in Serbia
The Romanian language is spoken as a mother tongue by 0.3% of the total population of Serbia with additional 0.3% declaring their mother tongue as "Vlach". According to data from the 2022 census, there are total of 60 thousand people declaring their ethnicity as either Romanians (mainly in Banat) and the Romanians/Vlachs (mainly in Timok Valley). The former speak the Banat Romanian and identify as ethnic Romanians. Romanian/Vlachs in Timok Valley speak archaic varieties of the Banat and Oltenian Romanian; most of the members of community do not identify as ethnic Romanians and their language is not officially recognized as Romanian by the Serbian state but as "Vlach language". This has been criticized in Romania, and attempts to bring Romanian-language resources and education to the Timok Vlachs have been blocked by the Serbian authorities.
In 2020, the Romanian Academy and the Academy of Sciences of Moldova issued a joint "Declaration on Unity of Romanian Language" condemning any attempts which has the aim politicisation of the Romanian language. They made an appeal to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts to contribute to the "normalization of the situation" regarding attempts to politicize the Romanian language in Serbia.
Vojvodina
Legal status
Article 10 of the Constitution of Serbia stipulates that the Serbian language and the Cyrillic script are official. In addition it provides that in the cities and municipalities inhabited by ethnic minorities, their own languages and scripts shall be officially used, as established by law.
Article 6 of the Statute of Vojvodina determines that, together with the Serbian language and Cyrillic script, and the Latin script as stipulated by the law, the Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, and Rusyn languages and their scripts, as well as languages and scripts of other ethnic minorities, shall simultaneously be officially used in the provincial bodies of Vojvodina (the Assembly of Vojvodina, the Government of Vojvodina, and the provincial administration).
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