Romanian is a Romance language spoken by about 24 million people in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. Romanian retains a number of features of Latin, such as noun cases, which other Romance languages dispensed with a long time ago
Due to its geographical isolation, Romanian was probably the first language that split and until the modern age was not influenced by other Romance languages. It is is more conservative than other Romance languages in nominal morphology. Romanian has preserved declension, collapsing Latin's five cases into two, the nominative/accusative and genitive/dative, and retains the neuter gender as well. However, the verbal morphology of Romanian has shown the same move towards a compound perfect and future tense as the other Romance languages.