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Romanian medical interpreters

Real-time Romanian medical interpretation for healthcare teams, on phones, tablets, and computers.

176,800 people in the U.S. speak Romanian at home.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Romanian speakers by state
StateSpeakers
Arizona7,226
Oregon5,311

The 2 states with the most Romanian speakers

  1. 1Arizona7,226
  2. 2Oregon5,311

State counts reflect the 15 most reported non-English languages in each state’s ACS table. States where Romanian falls outside the top 15 are shown without shading; the national total includes every state.

50,180

speakers of Romanian speak English less than “very well”: the federal threshold for needing language assistance.

28%

of Romanian speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.

7,226

people speak Romanian at home in Arizona alone.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

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What to know when interpreting Romanian

Every language has grammar that an interpreter must handle correctly. These are the Romanian features that the fewest other languages in the world share, according to the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS).

Indo-European · Romance · Eurasia

5.5%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Romanian puts “this” and “that” before or after the noun depending on the phrase, so an interpreter must listen for a pointing word on either side.

WALS 88A · Order of Demonstrative and Noun · Mixed

7.2%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Romanian has more than two levels of politeness in its word for “you”, so an interpreter must pick the level that fits the patient’s age and standing or risk sounding rude or cold.

WALS 45A · Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns · Multiple politeness distinctions

7.6%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Romanian stress falls on a different syllable from word to word with no rule to predict it, so an interpreter must know each medical term’s stress or risk saying a different word.

WALS 16A · Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems · Lexical stress

How Romanian is structured

Word ordersubject, object and verb
SVO
Adpositionsprepositions or postpositions
Prepositions
Adjectivebefore or after the noun
Noun-Adjective
Demonstrativethis and that, before or after
Mixed
Numeralnumber before or after the noun
Numeral-Noun
Genitivepossessor before or after
Noun-Genitive
Relative clausebefore or after the noun
Noun-Relative clause
Morphologyprefixing or suffixing
Strongly suffixing
Tonewhether pitch changes meaning
No tones
Casesnumber of noun cases
2 cases
Gendersnumber of noun genders
Not coded
Classifierscounting words for nouns
Not coded

Source: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) 2013. WALS Online, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. Romanian entry: wals.info ROM. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as WALS codes them; each links to its datapoint. The clinical readings are Opalite’s own inferences and are not part of WALS.

FAQs about Romanian medical interpreters

Arizona holds 4.1% of the nation’s Romanian speakers, and Romanian appears in the published top-15 tables of just 2 states.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Opalite uses the same underlying interpretation techniques for Romanian as it does for Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese. In Opalite’s published validation study, those three languages were evaluated in clinical conversations, with over 90% fewer errors than certified medical interpreters across the conversations studied.

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