The Parliament of Romania adopted the Law on the Institution of the Day of Serbian Language. The initiative to adopt this Law was submitted by the end of 2015 by the Member of Romanian Parliament from the Union of Serbs in Romania, Mr. Slavomir Gvozdenović. The proposal was unanimously adopted by the Parliament on 6 September 2016, and it entered into force on 17 October 2016.

The Law, which bears the number 177/2016, institutes 21 November as the Day of Serbian Language in Romania. This date was chosen because it symbolizes the transition of the Serbs from today’s Romania to the new Serbian alphabet, created by the great reformer, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. Namely, on this day, in 1826, Dimitrije Pantić Tirol, writer and publicist from Timisoara, informed Vuk Karadžić that he used the new alphabet to print the first edition of “Banat Almanac”, one of the first publications in Serbian language.

The text of the Law in Romanian language can be found here.