Short answers, pulled from the story.
Theophanes Confessor recorded the phrase Torna torna fratre in the year 587 during a military expedition against the Avars and Slovenes. This single phrase represents the earliest written record of a Romance language spoken in the Balkans.
Samuil Micu-Klein printed Elementa linguae daco-romanae sive valachicae in Vienna during 1780. Gheorghe Șincai revised this grammar book which presented Romanian phonological features alongside Latin comparisons to begin the modern age of Romanian.
Twenty-five million people speak Romanian as their first language according to recent estimates. Romania hosts 90.65% of native speakers totaling 17,263,561 individuals within its borders while Moldova contains 82.1% of speakers numbering 2,184,065 across its territory.
About 10 to 15 percent of modern Romanian vocabulary originates from Slavic languages according to linguistic studies. Old Church Slavonic served as official written language from fourteenth to eighteenth centuries and religious ritual terms predominantly derive from Slavic sources.
The Constitutional Court of Moldova ruled December 2013 that state language should be called Romanian not Moldovan. Parliament approved law the 16th of March 2023 referring national language as Romanian all legislative texts constitution.
Neacșu of Câmpulung wrote oldest surviving letter late June 1521 using Cyrillic alphabet addressing Brașov mayor about Turkish attack imminent. Hurmuzaki Psalter dated 1491-1504 represents earliest bilingual religious text Church Slavonic Romanian translation verse after verse.