Romanian is a Romance language. The days of the week in Romanian are similar to those of other Romance languages. The days of the week in Romanian are the following:
luni
marți
miercuri
joi
vineri
sâmbătă
duminică
The days for Monday to Friday all end with the same letter. However, in the word marți (Tuesday), the final letter palatalizes the preceding consonant, the voiceless alveolar affricate. The result is that marți is only one syllable.
The first letter of joi (Thursday) is the voiced alveopalatal fricative. The word sâmbătă has two vowels which do not occur in other languages. The letter â represents the high central unrounded vowel. It is rare among Indo-European languages but also occurs in Russian. The letter ă represents the schwa. In Romanian it occurs in both stressed and unstressed syllables.
An analysis of the days of the week in Romanian illustrates that they are similar to the days of the week in other Romance languages. The word-final i of marți serves to palatalize the preceding consonant. Romanian has two vowels which do not occur in other Romance languages, vowels which are present in the word sâmbătă (Saturday). The Romanian days of the week indicate that Romanian is truly a Romance language.
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