Romanian is the official language of Romania and Moldova, spoken by roughly 24 million native speakers — a Romance language using Latin script, with one of Europe's largest active diasporas concentrated in Italy and Spain.
Free quote in 10 minRomanian is the easternmost Romance language — descended from Vulgar Latin and preserved through millennia of Slavic, Greek, Turkish, and German contact while retaining its Latin grammatical core. It is the official language of Romania and of Moldova (where it is constitutionally referred to as Moldovan), with roughly 24 million native speakers worldwide. We assign Romanian projects by domain — ANMDM pharmaceutical submissions, BNR financial filings, the Bucharest tech and shared-services ecosystem, and USCIS for the diaspora dispersed across Italy, Spain, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
From USCIS-accepted certificat de nastere (birth certificates) for the Romanian-American community to ANMDM pharmaceutical submissions in Bucharest and BNR financial filings for the Eastern European banking sector — Day Translations matches every Romanian project to a native linguist by domain and regulatory framework.
USCIS-accepted certified translations for certificat de nastere, certificat de casatorie (marriage certificates), certificat de deces (death certificates), Romanian and Moldovan passports, military records, and university transcripts from the University of Bucharest, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, and Iasi. Signed statement of accuracy on every page.
Contracts, court filings, Legea societatilor (Companies Law 31/1990) corporate documents, ONRC (Oficiul National al Registrului Comertului / National Trade Register Office) filings, and Romanian-EU regulatory submissions. Traducator autorizat (Ministry of Justice-authorised translator) coordination available.
Patient consent forms, ANMDM (Agentia Nationala a Medicamentului si a Dispozitivelor Medicale) regulatory submissions, clinical trial protocols under EMA harmonisation, CNAS (Casa Nationala de Asigurari de Sanatate) health insurance documentation, and Section 1557 vital documents for the Romanian-American community.
Consecutive, simultaneous, OPI, and VRI. Court interpreters for federal immigration proceedings, depositions, and arbitration. Romanian-speaking interpreters available across NY, IL, MI federal districts and globally over the phone within 60 seconds, including Moldovan-Romanian register.
Website, software, and app localisation. Romanian text typically expands 15 to 25 percent versus English, with diacritic characters (ă, â, î, ș, ț) requiring correct Unicode and the s/t with comma versus cedilla distinction. In-country review by linguists in Bucharest, Cluj, and Iasi.
IT, automotive, energy, and engineering documentation for the Bucharest tech hub (UiPath, Bitdefender), Dacia (Renault Group), OMV Petrom, Hidroelectrica, and the broad shared-services and software-engineering sector. CE marking, ISO documentation, and SR-EN standards. Translators with engineering backgrounds.
Romania's pharmaceutical and medical-device markets are regulated by ANMDM (Agentia Nationala a Medicamentului si a Dispozitivelor Medicale) under full harmonisation with the European Medicines Agency since EU accession in 2007. ANMDM requires Romanian-language documentation for marketing authorisation, SmPCs, package leaflets, GMP audits, and pharmacovigilance reporting — using EMA QRD templates adapted to Romanian linguistic conventions. The Moldovan pharmaceutical agency operates under partial EU alignment and recognises Romanian-language documentation produced for ANMDM where regulatory frameworks have converged.
Romanian medical translation is one of the most demanded language services in Western Europe. Italy and Spain each host more than 1 million resident Romanians, and the UK, Germany, and the United States each host several hundred thousand. Romanian-speaking patients are the largest non-host-language LEP cohort in many Italian and Spanish public hospitals. Section 1557 of the US Affordable Care Act and Title VI require federally funded providers to offer qualified Romanian interpreters and translated vital documents to Limited English Proficient patients free of charge — a requirement that has scaled meaningfully with Romanian emigration to the United States since 2007.
Across medical and legal — our specialists have already touched every type you’re likely to send.
Romania operates under a civil-law tradition rooted in French Napoleonic codes through the 1864 Codul civil, comprehensively recodified in 2011 to align with contemporary European civil-law thinking. The Legea societatilor 31/1990 (Companies Law), the Codul de procedura civila (Code of Civil Procedure), and the Codul fiscal (Fiscal Code) use precise civil-law terminology in Romanian, with substantial overlap to Italian and Spanish legal terminology given the shared Romance heritage. Authorised translation in Romania is performed by traducator autorizat, licensed by the Ministry of Justice after passing the qualifying examination. Day Translations coordinates with Ministry of Justice-licensed traducatori autorizati for Romanian-court use and provides federally certified interpreters for US immigration matters.
Requires meaningful language access for LEP individuals in federally funded programs. Romanian surfaces in federal courts in the Eastern District of New York, the Northern District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Michigan, and increasingly across Florida and California.
GDPR requires Romanian-language privacy notices and data processing agreements. ANSPDCP (Autoritatea Nationala de Supraveghere a Prelucrarii Datelor cu Caracter Personal) enforces GDPR locally with substantial administrative fines.
Contracts intended for enforcement in Romanian courts are typically required in Romanian. SRL and SA corporate documents must be filed in Romanian with ONRC, the National Trade Register Office.
ANMDM requires Romanian-language SmPCs, package leaflets, and pharmacovigilance reports. Romanian text uses EMA QRD templates with Romanian-specific linguistic conventions verified by ANMDM review.
Romanian is the official language of Romania and of Moldova (where it is referred to constitutionally as Moldovan, though linguistically identical to standard Romanian) and is a recognised minority language in Serbia (Vojvodina), Ukraine, and Hungary. Romanian emigration since EU accession in 2007 has produced one of the largest active European diasporas — over 1 million Romanians live in each of Italy and Spain, with substantial communities also in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. The diaspora is economically active and uses Romanian-language services intensively.
Romania is one of Central and Eastern Europe's fastest-growing economies, with a GDP of roughly $370 billion anchored by the Bucharest tech hub (UiPath, Bitdefender, eMAG, Adobe Bucharest, Microsoft Romania), automotive manufacturing (Dacia under Renault Group at Mioveni, Ford at Craiova, and a deep Tier-1 supplier base), energy (OMV Petrom, Hidroelectrica, Nuclearelectrica), and shared-services and BPO operations for global enterprises. Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, and Iasi host engineering and software-development centres for IBM, Oracle, SAP, Endava, Accenture, and dozens of major financial institutions. Romanian-language documentation is mandatory for procurement, employment, and consumer-protection compliance under Romanian and EU law.
Romanian consumer markets reward localisation. Romanian retail is dominated by Lidl, Kaufland, Carrefour, Mega Image, eMAG, and the local OMV Petrom convenience network — all of which operate in Romanian, and Romanian banking (Banca Transilvania, BCR, BRD, Raiffeisen Bank Romania) requires Romanian-language disclosure for retail products under BNR (Banca Nationala a Romaniei) supervision. Day Translations' localisation team includes in-country reviewers in Bucharest, Cluj, and Iasi, supporting Bucharest fintech and SaaS, automotive (Dacia, Ford Craiova), shared services, and Romanian-American media for the US diaspora.
UiPath, Bitdefender, eMAG, Adobe Bucharest, Microsoft, Endava
Dacia (Renault Group), Ford Craiova, Tier-1 suppliers — Romania's industrial base
OMV Petrom, Hidroelectrica, Nuclearelectrica, Romgaz, Black Sea gas
ANMDM submissions, clinical trials, CNAS, Section 1557
BNR supervision, Banca Transilvania, BCR, BRD, Raiffeisen Romania
Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara — IBM, Oracle, SAP, Accenture, Genpact
USCIS for Romanian-Americans, federal court interpretation, Legea societatilor 31/1990
Erasmus+, transcripts from Bucharest, Babes-Bolyai Cluj, Polytechnic Bucharest, Iasi
We assess target domain (ANMDM, USCIS, EU, Legea societatilor, BNR) and target market (Romania, Moldova, diaspora) before assignment.
Romanian projects go to native speakers with documented domain expertise — traducator autorizat for legal, ANMDM-trained for medical, engineering background for technical.
Human translation by domain-specialist native linguist with TermBase enforcement, diacritic handling (s/t with comma), and EMA QRD compliance where applicable.
A second native Romanian linguist reviews — never the original translator.
Final files with certificate of accuracy. Ministry of Justice-licensed traducator autorizat coordination available for use inside Romania, with apostille through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Day Translations delivered our ANMDM marketing-authorisation dossier for an oncology indication. The Romanian-specific QRD requirements and EMA harmonisation were managed in parallel — submission cleared first-pass without language objections.”
“We needed Romanian localisation of our enterprise SaaS for the Bucharest tech ecosystem — 200,000 words across UI, help, and legal terms. Day Translations assigned a Bucharest-native technical translator and our Romanian customer-success team adopted the translations without revisions.”
“Our Chicago hospital system serves Illinois's established Romanian-American community and a growing first-generation cohort. Day Translations provides 24/7 Romanian OPI and Section 1557 patient-document translation. The Romanian-speaking patients now receive discharge instructions they can act on.”
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Ask a specialistRomanian descends from Vulgar Latin brought to Dacia (modern Romania) by Roman colonisation in the 2nd century AD. The Roman population survived as Latin-speaking Christians through more than a millennium of Slavic, Greek, Turkish, and German contact, producing a language whose grammatical core, verb system, and most basic vocabulary are unmistakably Latin — closer in structure to Italian than to any neighbouring Slavic language. Romanian retains the Latin neuter gender (lost in Italian and Spanish), has Slavic loanwords for some daily-life vocabulary, and is mutually understandable to Italian speakers at a basic level. Romanian translators are not interchangeable with Slavic-language translators.
USCIS requires certified English translations of all Romanian-language documents — most commonly certificat de nastere (birth certificate), certificat de casatorie (marriage certificate), certificat de deces (death certificate), Romanian and Moldovan passports, military service records, and university transcripts from the University of Bucharest, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, and the West University of Timisoara. Day Translations provides USCIS-accepted certified Romanian translations with a signed statement of accuracy on every page, typically within 24 to 48 hours.
ANMDM (Agentia Nationala a Medicamentului si a Dispozitivelor Medicale) is Romania's national regulator for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biocides, operating under the Ministry of Health. It requires Romanian-language documentation for marketing authorisation, SmPCs, package leaflets, GMP audit dossiers, and pharmacovigilance reporting. Romania is fully harmonised with EMA frameworks since 2007 EU accession, but ANMDM applies Romanian-specific QRD conventions and operates a linguistic review function. Submissions must respect the Romanian diacritic system, including the modern s and t with comma below (not cedilla).
Yes, linguistically. Standard Moldovan as used in the Republic of Moldova is identical to standard Romanian — the same grammar, vocabulary, orthography, and Latin script. The Constitution of Moldova refers to the state language as Moldovan for political-historical reasons, but the Constitutional Court of Moldova has affirmed the linguistic identity with Romanian, and Moldova's mainstream media, education, and academic institutions use Romanian without modification. Some older speakers in Moldova may use Cyrillic-script Moldovan (a Soviet-era convention preserved in Transnistria), but standard practice in Chisinau is Latin-script Romanian.
Italy and Spain each host over 1 million Romanian residents — the largest Romanian diaspora communities outside the country, formed after 2007 EU accession opened Western European labour markets. Germany hosts approximately 800,000 Romanian residents, the United Kingdom approximately 600,000, the United States approximately 500,000 (concentrated in Chicago, New York, Michigan, Florida, and California), and France approximately 150,000. The Romanian diaspora is economically active and uses Romanian-language services — banking, healthcare, legal, education — intensively, and Romania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs operates a dedicated diaspora-services portfolio.
Romania joined the EU in 2007 with full harmonisation across GDPR, MDR/IVDR for medical devices, REACH for chemicals, and EMA for pharmaceuticals. Romanian-language documentation is mandatory for marketing in Romania, but EU-harmonised frameworks govern most regulatory submissions. Romania is not yet a Eurozone member (the leu remains in use), but joined Schengen for air and sea travel in 2024 with land-border accession underway. ANSPDCP enforces GDPR locally with substantial administrative fines, and BNR (Banca Nationala a Romaniei) supervises financial services with Romanian-language disclosure requirements for retail products.
Yes. Bucharest is one of Europe's most dynamic technology hubs — UiPath (founded in Bucharest, the global leader in robotic process automation), Bitdefender (cybersecurity), eMAG (e-commerce), and global engineering centres for Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, SAP, IBM, and Endava all operate in Romania. Cluj-Napoca and Iasi anchor secondary tech ecosystems. Romanian technical translation covers software localisation, SaaS UI/help, cybersecurity, automotive (Dacia under Renault, Ford Craiova), and energy. Our technical translators have engineering and computer-science backgrounds and work in CAT tools with Romanian-specific TermBases tuned to SR-EN standards.
Certified USCIS translations of single-page Romanian civil documents (certificat de nastere, certificat de casatorie) are delivered in 24 to 48 hours, with same-day rush available. Standard Romanian translation up to 5,000 words runs 2 to 5 business days under full ISO 17100 workflow with independent native review. ANMDM pharmaceutical packages take 5 to 10 business days depending on QRD scope. Traducator autorizat certification follows the Ministry of Justice-licensed translator's own scheduling, typically 3 to 7 business days, with apostille coordination available through the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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