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Romanian PhonologyRomanian language has eight vowels (of which, one is voiceless), four semivowels and twenty consonants. Vowels There are eight vowels in Romanian: The last two letters both represent exactly the same sound, and since they are also not interchangeable in writing this article counts them as a single vowel. Under Communism, students were taught and publications were written using only in an attempt to Russify the language (some words were also changed to make them sound more Slavic, such as the case of "sunt" — "I am" — which was changed to "snt"). Formerly and currently, "" is used as the first or last letter of words (and retained when prefixes and suffixes were added), whereas is used when it occurs in the middle of the word. Today, either are acceptable, and some publications still retain the Communist-era style of only using . A voiceless terminal "i" that can be found especially on plural forms. Semivowels | Letters | SAMPA | IPA | | i | j | j | | u | w | w | | ea | ja | | | oa | wa | | Consonants - c, g: same as Italian
- h: /x/
- j: like in French
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dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palato-
alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | | align="left"|Plosive | align="center"|p b | | align="center"|t d | | | | align="center"|k g | | | align="left"|Nasal | align="center"|m | | align="center"|n | | | | | | | align="left"|Fricative | align="center"| | align="center"|f v | align="center"|s z | align="center"|ʃ ʒ | |align="center"|x | | | align="left"|Lateral approximant | | | | align="center"|l | | | | | Phonology
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