Romanian is a Romance language, meaning that it is in the same language family as Spanish, French, Italian, and many other European languages. Like them, Romanian developed out of the Latin language spoken in the Roman Empire. In fact, although Romanian has absorbed many vocabulary words from the surrounding Slavic languages, it has actually remained closer to Latin in terms of grammar than many of the other Romance languages.
Romanian is written in a variation of the Latin alphabet that includes several special characters. There are two methods for typing these characters.
The simplest method is to use the character suggestions. To do so, type the base character for the letter you want, then select the special character from the set of characters which appears.
The other method is to use the virtual keyboard with the layout set to Romanian. (If necessary, you can change the layout by clicking and selecting an option in the Keyboard Language menu.)
Locate the character you want on the virtual keyboard, then click on it or press the corresponding key on your physical keyboard. Capital letters and certain punctuation marks, such as the question mark, are available by holding down the Shift key.
See Typing Accents and Special Characters for details on both typing methods.