ROMANIAN LANGUAGE

The first issue of Limba română (LR), a journal published under the auspices of the Romanian Academy, appeared at the end of 1952.

Since then, the journal has been published continuously, with three different annual publication formats: six issues per year (1953–1991, 1997–2006), twelve issues per year (1992–1996) and four issues per year (2007–present).

Over the years, the journal has been led by Academician Dimitrie Macrea (1952–1957), Academician Iorgu Iordan (1958–mid-1982), Academician Al. Graur (second half of 1982–1989), Academician Ion Coteanu (1990–1997) and Academician Marius Sala (1998–2010). At present, the Editor-in-Chief is Alexandru Mareș, Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, while Academician Gheorghe Chivu serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief.

Until 2004, the editorial board was exclusively national, consisting of academicians, university professors and researchers. Since 2005, the journal has also had an international editorial board.

Currently, the domestic editorial board includes distinguished linguists such as Academician Gheorghe Chivu, Valeria Guțu Romalo (Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy), Alexandru Mareș (Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy), Camelia Stan, Rodica Zafiu (Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy). The international board benefits from the contributions of specialists from research institutes and universities across Europe, including Klaus Bochmann (University of Leipzig), Jiří Felix (Charles University in Prague), Christian Ionescu (University of Santiago de Compostela), Tamara Repina (Saint Petersburg State University) and Stefana Kaldieva-Zaharieva (Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria).

Limba română is the only journal in Europe dedicated to the study of the Romanian language in all its aspects: grammar, vocabulary, literary language and stylistics, the history of Romanian linguistics, dialectology, language cultivation, orthography, etymology, onomastics and philology. Given the increasingly important role of Romanian within the European Union, largely due to Romanian migration, the journal is of evident importance to linguists everywhere.

Throughout its history, the journal’s contributors have included researchers and university faculty members from Romania and abroad, recognized for their contributions to the development of the linguistic disciplines in which they work. These include Andrei Avram, Mioara Avram, Werner Bahner, Gr. Brâncuș, Gh. Chivu, Mariana Costinescu, I. Coteanu, Vladimir Drimba, Florica Dimitrescu, I. Fischer, Ion Gheție, Al. Graur, Valeria Guțu-Romalo, Theodor Hristea, E. Janitsek, Iorgu Iordan, Christian Ionescu, Al. Mareș, Wolfgang Motsch, Virgil Nestorescu, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, Emil Petrovici, I. Rizescu, Marius Sala, N. Saramandu, Mircea Seche, Dan Simonescu, Camelia Stan, Emil Suciu, Flora Șuteu, G. I. Tohăneanu, N. A. Ursu, Laura Vasiliu, Reidar Veland and many others.

Limba română is the only scholarly journal in Romania that devotes one annual issue to the exhaustive bibliography of linguistic works published in the country during the previous year. This bibliography, entitled Romanian Linguistic Bibliography (Bibliografia românească de lingvistică, BRL), is an invaluable research tool for all those interested in the study of Romanian, including Romanianists and Romance linguists both in Romania and abroad. It makes Limba română an indispensable publication for any scholarly work dedicated to the Romanian language.

The last issue of each year, or the first issue of the following year, contains the journal’s annual tables of contents, accompanied by subject, word and author indexes.

The journal is available electronically on the website of the Institute of Linguistics (www.lingv.ro).

In print, it is distributed directly through the Romanian Academy Publishing House bookstore and through Manpress Distribution SRL, Orion Press Impex 2000 SRL, Derex Com SRL Sorirori Solutions and Cris Media Press Impex SRL (distribution information is available on the inside front cover of the journal).

Through the Romanian Academy’s international exchange program for publications, the journal is distributed to 144 libraries in 40 countries, including European Union member states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Hungary) as well as countries outside the European Union (the United Kingdom, Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Switzerland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, North Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, the United States, Turkey, Ukraine and Uruguay).

As a result, Limba română reaches countries with strong traditions in linguistic research (e.g., EU member states, the United States, Israel and Japan), countries with research traditions in Romance linguistics (Europe, Canada, and South America) and Balkan linguistics (Europe), and enjoys the appreciation of specialists in the field.

Limba română is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original articles in linguistics written in Romanian or in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. As the only publication in Europe devoted exclusively to the study of the Romanian language in all its aspects, it is natural that the majority of articles are published in Romanian.

The journal is indexed in Google Scholar, IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences), Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF – Gallica / Catalogue général), NLA (National Library of Australia), Washington State University Libraries, KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences), Linguistic Bibliography, IUCAT (Indiana University) and OCLC (WorldCat). Until 2018, Limba română was also indexed in ERIH.