Romanian language in Serbia

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 addition it notes that in the regions inhabited by national minorities, their own languages and scripts shall be officially used, as established by law.

[7] The Provincial Secretariat for Regulations, Administration and National Minorities also sends Romanian judicial interprets to the district courts in Novi Sad and Pančevo.

[8] At the local level, the Romanian language and script are officially used in Alibunar, Bela Crkva, Žitište, Zrenjanin, Kovačica, Kovin, Plandište and Sečanj.

In the 2002 census, Serbia's most recent, 1.45% citizens of Vojvodina declared Romanian as their mother tongue (0.1% of the world's Romanophones).

[10] It is under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Eparchy "Dacia Felix" based in Vršac and headed by Ieronim Crețu, vicar bishop of the Patriarchate in București.

Textbooks for the first and the second grade were published after they were approved by the Commission of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for Religious Education in Elementary and Middle Schools.

Romanian literature is represented in Banat starting with Victor Vlad Delamarina and including more recent writers.

The contribution of Vojvodina-based writers is significant within the works published in the entire Banat, through authors such as Vasile Barbu, president of the "Tibiscus" Literary-Artistic Society in Uzdin, Pavel Gătăiantu, Ana Niculina Ursulescu, Virginia Popovici, Slavco Almăjan and Marina Puia Bădescu.

For the 45th edition of the Belgrade Book Fair, the house prepared a CD with the nine most successful titles, under the slogan "3,000 pages for the third millennium" (Romanian: 3.000 de pagini pentru mileniul trei).

[24] According to some media sources, Serbia recognized "Romanian" as the native language of the Vlach community, through the act of confirmation of the National Council of the Vlach (Roumanian) National Minority in August 2007; the organization had listed Romanian as the native language of the community in their statute.

[verification needed][25][26][27] Its two main variants, "Ungurean" and "Țăran", are subordinated forms of the Romanian varieties spoken in Banat and Oltenia, respectively.

It was a part of the wider research on dialectology in Europe, and its results will be included in the updated version of the Atlas Linguarum Europae.