About
Romania Digital Archive
What is this archive?
The Romance Digital Archive (RomaniaDA) is a free, open-access repository of texts, documents, and materials in the minoritized Romance languages of Europe. It exists to make these languages more visible, more learnable, and more alive — for speakers, learners, researchers, and anyone who believes a language is worth knowing.
Our main focus is languages that are not officially recognized or protected in their respective countries — such as Asturian, Sicilian, and Sardinian — simply because those that do enjoy recognition already tend to have centralized resources.
Why minority Romance languages?
The Romance language family is far wider than the handful of national languages that tend to receive attention. Asturian, Aragonese, Sicilian, Sardinian, Occitan, Genovese, Friulian, Venetian — these are not dialects or curiosities. They are fully-fledged linguistic systems with centuries of literature, oral tradition, and living communities behind them.
Many of them are endangered. Most are under-resourced digitally. Speakers often lack access to quality materials in their own language, and learners face an almost total void of structured resources. RomaniaDA wants to help address that. And even though we focus on what we know best — Romance languages — we are open to expanding the catalogue in the future. Feel free to contact us if you're interested!
How to use the archive
Browse by individual language to see what resources we have uploaded. You are free to download anything you find in the archive. Resources are often transcribed by individuals and made freely available; in some cases, we have been granted permission to publish materials on this site.
The archive is a work in progress. Not every language has the same depth of materials yet — and that is part of the project: to grow over time, with contributions from communities and collaborators.
Contributing
RomaniaDA is built on the belief that this kind of work belongs to everyone. If you are a speaker, a researcher, a teacher, or a language enthusiast with materials to share — texts, learning resources, literature — we want to hear from you.
Get in touch at info.revitaproject@gmail.com.