«Classifications that are not based on family trees usually involve ranking languages according to degree of differentiation rather than grouping them; thus, if the Romance languages are compared with Latin, it is seen that by most measures Sardinian and Italian are least differentiated and French most (though in vocabulary Romanian has changed most)." Marius Sala; et al. "Romance languages". Britannica.com.
M. Paul Lewis, "Summary by language size", Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth Edition.
1993 Statistical Abstract of Israel reports 250,000 speakers of Romanian in Israel, while the 1995 census puts the total figure of the Israeli population at 5,548,523
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