Locale Ro Ro

Reference data for the Romanian (Romania) locale — endonym Română (România), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: ro-RO
• ISO 639-1: ro
• ISO 639-3: ron
• Script: Latn (Latin)
• Region: RO (Romania)
• Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 19,000,000
• L2 (additional): 1,500,000
• L1+L2 (total): 20,500,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Ro 001 (Romanian), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, few, other (3 forms).

• one — i = 1 and v = 0 (e.g. 1)
• few — v != 0 or n = 0 or n != 1 and n % 100 = 1..19 (e.g. 0, 2~16, 101, 1001, …)
• other — everything else (e.g. 20~35, 100, 1000, 10000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale Ro 001 with the conventions of Romania.

• Formats: leu (lei, RON) after the amount; dates 17.10.2026; 24-hour clock; decimal comma.
• Terminology: use Romanian EU terminology (official Romanian versions) for legal and administrative content.
• Names: Romanian names have a family name and a given name; compound given names and diacritics are common and must be kept (Ștefan, Țepeș).
• Tone: polite and formal in business, with titles (Domnule, Doamnă, Doamna) in correspondence.

Common pitfalls

• Using Moldovan or Russian-influenced forms.
• Dropping diacritics from names.
• The general pitfalls in Locale Ro 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• EU Interinstitutional Style Guide (https://style-guide.europa.eu), language-specific conventions