"Papagalii vorbesc româna."

Translation: The parrots speak Romanian.

[splittongue]

No, they do not speak it! Not all of them. Or, not yet... most of them are just learning it here... (in romanian, papagal is also slang for a nerd or silly guy: "Nu fii papagal" ~= "Don't be silly").

[SebastienBaill]

Is there a reason why languages do not use a first capital letter in Romanian?

[potestasity]

Is there a reason why they do in English? :P

[SebastienBaill]

Hahaha! Well that is a good reply.
So I'm assuming they never take capitals then.

[potestasity]

Yes. Also true of days of the week and months of the year.

[splittongue]

and nationalities, etc. In Romanian, the only place where a capital letter is used is the proper nouns and beginning of sentences or titles. English is somewhere in the middle, in this respect, for example Germans capitalize all nouns.

[MikeVanDerBurg]

This while nationalities used as adjectives in German are not capitalised either.

[Gabriel750645]

Es ist richtig!Klar.

[Pumky1031]

Except languages! Ha ha

[rockyroo121]

Yes its the start of a new sentence.

[Pumky1031]

Touché! Ha ha.

[BenYoung84]

I think it's based on the fact that names of languages derive from adjectives. Languages other than English don't have our concept of "proper adjectives".

[AndreiChichizola]

Why would they? I don't know any language which capitalizes languages besides English or German

[Ces.10]

Dutch does it too.

[LeonardoN.M]

[KaiMishima]

Even some parrots can speak Romanian while I'm struggling with its intricate (even more complex than Italian) object pronouns and stuff.

[Tsiakiris]

Tromouna ! maybe a fix to this wouldn't be so bad