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1146:‘The Government of Ukraine adopted a decision regarding the use of the term "Romanian language" instead of the term "Moldovan language" in Ukraine. Currently, work is underway to bring the current legislation of Ukraine in line with this decision, which includes many internal regulatory legal acts. Separately, we note that all further acts of the government will be adopted considering the agreements. And all civil servants who allow violations of the government's decision will be subject to disciplinary action. The facts reported in the media regarding the printed textbooks refer to the copies approved for printing in May this year. The main edition of these textbooks was printed in the summer before the decision was made not to use the term "Moldovan language". Today, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has stopped any additional printing of these textbooks. And also develops a mechanism for replacing previously printed copies with textbooks in the Romanian language.' 2230:"Moldavian" to make it look more like Russian and less like Romanian; archaic Romanian words of Slavic origin were imposed on "Moldavian"; Russian loanwords and phrases were added to "Moldavian"; and a new theory was advanced that "Moldavian" was at least partially Slavic in origin. In 1949 Moldavian citizens were publicly reprimanded in a journal for daring to express themselves in literary Romanian. The Soviet government continued this type of behavior for decades. Proper names were subjected to Russianization (see Glossary) as well. Russian endings were added to purely Romanian names, and individuals were referred to in the Russian manner by using a patronymic (based on one's father's first name) together with a first name. 768:, scholars did not have consensus that Moldovans and the Romanians formed a single ethnic group. The Moldovan peasants had grown up in a different political entity and missed the years of creating a pan-Romanian national political consciousness. They identified as Moldovans speaking the language "Moldovan". This caused reactions from pan-Romanian nationalists. The concept of the distinction of Moldovan from Romanian was explicitly stated only in the early 20th century. It accompanied the raising of national awareness among Moldovans, with the Soviets emphasizing distinctions between Moldavians and Romanians. 1047:, claimed that "the Romanian language should be renamed to Moldovan, and not the opposite". Romanian foreign minister Aurescu replied to this by saying, "This so-called Moldovan language does not exist, it is an artificial construct, which was created by the Soviet Union and has later been used by Russia for disinformation purposes". To this, Zakharova replied back by saying, "Sr. Bogdan Aurescu never existed either, but in the end he was created. Now it is possible to call him an artificial construct." The president of Moldova, Maia Sandu, promulgated the law on 22 March. It was published on the 719: 959:
Moldova (proper, without the Transnistrian separatist region) identified Moldovan or Romanian as their native language, of which 1,544,726 (55.1%) declared Moldovan and 639.339 (22.8%) declared it Romanian. According to the 2014 census, 2,720,377 answered to the question on "language usually used for communication". 2,138,964 people or 78.63% of the inhabitants of Moldova (proper, without the Transnistrian separatist region) have Moldovan/Romanian as first language, of which 1,486,570 (53%) declared it Moldovan and 652,394 (23.3%) declared it Romanian.
138: 1120:, Ciolacu once again requested that the Ukrainian authorities stop recognizing the existence of the Moldovan language. On the same day, during a meeting with Romanian journalists, Zelenskyy was asked if Ukraine would stop recognising the Moldovan language. He responded by saying that he did not see this as a global problem and that it was not an urgent issue for a country at war but that the Ukrainian government would meet in a week or two and that a solution to the issue "I'm sure everyone will be happy" with would be found. 1218:, which literally means 'the language of the state') until 2023. In March 2023 the Parliament of Moldova has approved a law on referring to the national language as Romanian in all legislative texts and the constitution following the 2013 decision of the Constitutional Court of Moldova that gives primacy to the text of the 1991 Declaration of Independence of Moldova that calls the national language Romanian. The law was approved by the parliament on 16 March, and the President of Moldova promulgated the law on 22 March. 4478: 1332: 1473: 711: 5091: 963:
significant majority of the self-identified Moldovans thought that there was no difference between the Moldovan language and the Romanian language in that part of Ukraine. According to Alla Skvortsova, an ethnic Russian researcher from the Republic of Moldova, "Our survey found that while 94.4 percent of the Romanians living in Moldova consider Moldovan and Romanian to be the same language, only half of the Moldovans (53.2 percent) share this view".
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Pal Kolsto with Hans Olav Melberg, “Integration, Alienation, and Conflict in Estonia and Moldova,” in Pal Kolsto (ed.), National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), p. 34. The article discusses the data of the survey. The data
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On 2 March 2023, the Moldovan parliament voted to replace the phrases "Moldovan language", "state language" and "official language" in Moldovan legislation with the phrase "Romanian language". The change was presented not as a constitutional change, but only a technical one, as it would implement the
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gave their language as "Romanian", in the countryside more than six-sevenths of the Romanian/Moldovan speakers indicated "Moldovan" as their native language, reflecting historic conservatism. Currently, 2,184,065 people or 80.2% of those covered by the 2014 census on the right bank of the Dniester or
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Romanian/Moldovan speakers identified Romanian as their native language, in the countryside 86% of the Romanian/Moldovan speakers indicated Moldovan, a historic holdover. Independent studies found a Moldovan linguistic identity asserted in particular by the rural population and post-Soviet political
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In the Republic of Moldova, “more than half of the self-proclaimed Moldovans (53.5%) said that they saw no difference” between the Romanian and Moldovan languages according to a survey conducted by Pal Kolsto and Hans Olav Melberg in 1998. Opinion polling from the Chernivtsi oblast indicated that a
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Major developments since the fall of the Soviet Union include resuming use of a Latin script rather than Cyrillic letters in 1989, and several changes in the statutory name of the official language used in Moldova. At one point of particular confusion about identity in the 1990s, all references to
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signed Order No. 872 on the application of the revised spelling rules as adopted by the Moldovan Academy of Sciences, coming into force on the day of signing. Since then the spelling used by institutions subordinated to the Ministry of Education is in line with the spelling norms used in Romania
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Though not immediately adopting these, the Academy of Sciences of Moldova acknowledged both the Romanian Academy's decision of 1993 and the orthographic reform of 2005. In 2000, the Moldovan Academy recommended adopting the spelling rules used in Romania, and in 2010 launched a schedule for the
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Stalin justified the creation of the Moldavian SSR by claiming that a distinct "Moldavian" language was an indicator that "Moldavians" were a separate nationality from the Romanians in Romania. In order to give greater credence to this claim, in 1940 Stalin imposed the Cyrillic alphabet on
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reported that the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science had announced all 16 schools in Odesa Oblast teaching "Moldovan" had dropped the term in favor of Romanian. However, Anatol Popescu, president of the Bessarabia National–Cultural Association, reported that in the Romanian school of
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In November 2007, when reporting on EU Council deliberations regarding an agreement between the European Community and Moldova, the Romanian reporter Jean Marin Marinescu included a recommendation to avoid formal references to the "Moldovan language". The Romanian press speculated that the
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transition to the new rules that was completed in 2011 (regarding its publications). However, these changes were not implemented by Moldova's Ministry of Education, so the old orthographic conventions were maintained in the education sector such as in school textbooks.
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On 18 October, Ukrainian authorities promised to "resolve the issue of artificial separation between the Romanian and "Moldovan" languages by implementing appropriate practical measures with due consideration of all legal aspects." Former Moldovan president
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124. ... Prin urmare, Curtea consideră că prevederea conținută în Declarația de Independență referitoare la limba română ca limbă de stat a Republicii Moldova prevalează asupra prevederii referitoare la limba moldovenească conținute în articolul 13 al
954:, 16.5% (558,508) of the 3,383,332 people living in Moldova declared Romanian as their native language, whereas 60% declared Moldovan. Most of the latter responses were from rural populations. While the majority of the population in the capital city of 2692: 1212:, which is still in effect in Moldova, according to the Constitution, asserts a "linguistic Moldo-Romanian identity". Article 13 of the Moldovan Constitution used to name it "the national language of the country" (the original uses the phrase 3400:"La solicitarea Consiliului Științific al Institutului de Filologie al Academiei de Științe a Moldovei din 24 noiembrie 2009 și în conformitate cu Hotărârea Adunării Generale a Academiei Române din 17 februarie 1993, privind revenirea la 2662: 2714: 2348: 1176:), the term had been replaced with "language of the national minority" instead, protesting against this and against other issues that had been reported regarding the school's intended renaming and reorganization into a high school. 745:, officials emphasized the language's name as part of separating the Moldovans from those people who began to identify as Romanian in a different nation-building process. Cyrillic script was in use. From a linguistic perspective, 3065: 2300:
The identifiers mo and mol are deprecated, leaving ro and ron (639-2/T) and rum (639-2/B) the current language identifiers to be used for the variant of the Romanian language also known as Moldavian and Moldovan in English and
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On 16 November, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Ukrainian government stated that it has initiated steps to abolish the Moldovan language and to replace it with Romanian. The Ukrainian Ministry of Education stated:
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class. In a survey conducted in four villages near the border with Romania, when asked about their native language the interviewees identified the following: Moldovan 53%, Romanian 44%, and Russian 3%.
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had a meeting in Bucharest. Among the things that were discussed was the issue of the Romanian minority in Ukraine. Ciolacu said that Romania sought for the Romanians in Ukraine to have exactly the same rights as the
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since 1993. This order, however, has no application to other government institutions, nor has Law 3462 been amended to reflect these changes; thus, those institutions continue to use the old spelling.
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reported that the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science had announced all 16 schools in Odesa Oblast teaching "Moldovan" had dropped the term in favor of Romanian. On 16 March 2023, the
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said: "I have stated more than once that the notion of a Moldovan language and a Romanian language reflects the same linguistic phenomenon in essence." The president of Moldova
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The matter of whether or not Moldovan is a separate language continues to be contested politically within and beyond the Republic of Moldova. The 1989 Language Law of the
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of the Ukrainian government stated that it has initiated steps to abolish the Moldovan language and to replace it with Romanian. On 13 January 2024, Ukrainian newspaper
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alternately used Latin or Cyrillic for writing the language, mirroring the political goals of the moment. Between 1940 and 1989, i.e., during Soviet rule, the new
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to relinquish the recognition of the Moldovan language in Ukraine. However, as of June 2023, Ukraine still continues to make Moldovan-language schoolbooks.
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Legea cu privire la funcționarea limbilor vorbite pe teritoriul RSS Moldovenești nr. 3465-XI din 01.09.89 Vestile nr. 9/217, 1989
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said that Romanian and Moldovan were the same language and that the Constitution of Moldova should be amended to reflect this—not by substituting
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banned the usage of the phrase "Moldovan language". However, the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy,
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interpreted that Article 13 of the constitution is superseded by the Declaration of Independence, thus giving official status to the name
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https://mon.gov.ua/en/news/declaratie-oficiala-privind-utilizarea-in-ucraina-termenului-limba-romana-in-locul-termenului-limba-moldoveneasca
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https://mon.gov.ua/en/news/declaratie-oficiala-privind-utilizarea-in-ucraina-termenului-limba-romana-in-locul-termenului-limba-moldoveneasca
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in French. The identifiers mo and mol will not be assigned to different items, and recordings using these identifiers will not be invalid
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ruled that the Declaration of Independence takes precedence over the Constitution and that the state language should be called Romanian.
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also supported this decision. The bill was approved on its second and final reading on 16 March. This attracted criticism from Russia.
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in Romania declared that all the Moldovan words are also Romanian words, although some of its contents are disputed as being Russian
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acknowledged that the two languages are identical, but said that Moldovans should have the right to call their language "Moldovan".
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See ‘Official statement regarding the use in Ukraine of the term "Romanian language" instead of the term "Moldovan language"’, at
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See ‘Official statement regarding the use in Ukraine of the term "Romanian language" instead of the term "Moldovan language"’, at
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and recommended for publishing following a conference on 15 November 2000 – applies the decision of the General Meeting of the
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Astăzi am promulgat Legea care confirmă un adevăr istoric și incontestabil: limba de stat a Republicii Moldova este cea română.
505: 2782: 1280:, of the citizens living in Moldova, 60% identified Moldovan as their native language; 16.5% chose Romanian. While 37% of all 4219: 3809: 3341: 2850:"Maria Zaharova îl atacă pe Bogdan Aurescu în scandalul "limbii moldoveneşti": "Nici ministrul român nu a existat niciodată"" 1536: 1297:, denied these allegations. She said that the Moldovan language is referred to in the 1998 Cooperation Agreement between the 1013: 1006: 932: 4224: 4010: 2389: 2040: 1825:"Останні молдавські школи Одеської області перейменували рідну мову на румунську: це відкриває низку можливостей для учнів" 3871: 3144: 611:
The language of the Moldovans had for centuries been interchangeably identified by both terms, but during the time of the
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Eleonora Rusnac, "Translation of Russian loans and irregularities of the spoken language in the Republic of Moldova"
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Alla Skvortsova, "The Cultural and Social Makeup of Moldova: A Bipolar or Dispersed Society?", in Pal Kolsto (ed.),
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Sprachkonflikt und Sprachbewusstsein in der Republik Moldova: Eine empirische Studie in gemischtethnischen Familien
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While a majority of Moldovans with higher education, as well as a majority of inhabitants of the capital city of
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in Moldova and beyond. It is closely tied to the region's political status, as during long periods of rule by
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and standardised in the Soviet Union) was used in 1924–1932 and 1938–1989 and remains in use in Transnistria.
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Ciscel, Matthew H. (2008). "Uneasy Compromise: Language and Education in Moldova". In Pavlenko, Aneta (ed.).
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from 17 February 1993, regarding the return to "â" and "sunt" in the orthography of the Romanian language. (
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was published aiming to prove that there existed two distinct languages. Reacting to this, linguists of the
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Moldovan is widely considered to be identical to standard Romanian. Writing about "essential differences",
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Zabarah, Dareg A. (2010). "The Linguistic Gordian Knot in Moldova: Repeating the Yugoslav Experience?".
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Slavonic Letters in Moldova, Wallachia & Transylvania from the Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
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also includes Transnistria, the mostly Russian-speaking area of eastern Moldova. See Kolsto, p. 35.
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King, Charles (1999). "The Ambivalence of Authenticity, or How the Moldovan Language Was Made".
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changed the official orthography of the Romanian language, the Institute of Linguistics at the
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2013 decision of the Constitutional Court of Moldova. This change was supported by the ruling
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alphabet) before the 19th century. Both Cyrillic and, rarely, Latin, were used until after
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geography in the name of the language were dropped, and it was officially known simply as
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Dicționarul ortografic al limbii române (ortoepic, morfologic, cu norme de punctuație)
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The Language of the Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and Identity in an Ex-Soviet Republic
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https://statistica.gov.md/ro/recensamantul-populatiei-si-al-locuintelor-2014-122.html
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The history of the Moldovan language refers to the historical evolution of the
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continues to recognize "Moldavian" as one of its official languages, alongside
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and also for the removal of the Moldovan language from Ukrainian legislation.
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did not initially make these changes, which however have since been adopted.
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1999 Moldovan stamp celebrating 10 years since reverting to the Latin script
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Answer given by Mrs Ferrero-Waldner on behalf of the Commission
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was declared the official language of Moldova in Article 13 of the
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at the time. Transnistria, however, uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
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ISO 639 code sets: Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: mol
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also continued until recently to make a distinction between
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Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, Title 7, Article 7
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The standard alphabet used in Moldova is equivalent to the
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replaced Latin as the official alphabet in Moldova (then
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
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On 10 October, during a meeting between Ciolacu and
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Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 3537: 3288: 3211: 2336: 1812: 1735: 1675: 1673: 1585:"Constitution of the Republic of Moldova" 1067:requested the Ukrainian Foreign Minister 4522: 3678: 3601: 3557:Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries 3519: 3360: 3276: 1358:The language was generally written in a 1330: 1195: 1150:On 13 January 2024, Ukrainian newspaper 717: 709: 488:) is one of the two local names for the 4955:Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române 3773: 3587:. New York: Columbia University Press. 3236:"Ştiri de ultima ora si ultimele ştiri" 3063: 2918: 2390:"Linguists condemn "Moldovan language"" 2241: 1971:. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. 1958: 1335:A welcome sign in Moldovan Cyrillic in 1063:On 13 April, Romanian Foreign Minister 1050:Monitorul Oficial al Republicii Moldova 943:as designations for the same language ( 699: 5110: 3869: 3795: 3554: 3300:from the original on 24 September 2015 3264: 2821: 2485:Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, 2320:. www.alvestrand.no. 3 November 2008. 1723:from the original on 23 September 2016 1670: 1014:Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 1007:Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania 506:Declaration of Independence of Moldova 4630: 4604: 4496: 3894: 3754: 3745: 3318: 2587:from the original on 24 December 2020 2433:from the original on 13 November 2012 2208: 2202: 2175:, Ed. 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București: Corint. 3520:Arambașa, Mihaela Narcisa (2008). 3381:from the original on 19 March 2023 2785:from the original on 17 March 2023 2755:from the original on 17 March 2023 2290:from the original on 28 April 2019 1975:from the original on 5 August 2012 1918: 1765: 1622:from the original on 10 March 2014 970:has been used since independence. 14: 5144: 5008:Slavic superstratum and adstratum 3870:Cărăuș, Tamara (April–May 2002). 3821: 3319:Vulpe, Marius (20 October 2007). 2919:Gridina, Marina (13 April 2023). 2822:Rubica, Andreea (20 March 2023). 2725:from the original on 2 March 2023 2721:(in Romanian). 28 February 2023. 2695:from the original on 7 March 2023 2665:from the original on 2 March 2023 2613:(in Romanian). 30 November 2022. 2557:from the original on 2 March 2017 2219:from the original on 8 March 2021 2071:from the original on 9 April 2008 1653:from the original on 5 March 2016 1601: 1033:Bloc of Communists and Socialists 880:attempted to change the official 638:, most rural residents indicated 596:in all legislative texts and the 578:Ministry of Education and Science 5090: 5089: 4477: 4476: 4029: 3568:. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen. 3493:(in Romanian). 18 October 2016. 3212:Lozinschi, Raisa (25 May 2004). 3021:(in Ukrainian). 18 October 2023. 2577:"Președinția Republicii Moldova" 2547:"Președinția Republicii Moldova" 2324:from the original on 7 June 2011 2318:"ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol" 1831:(in Ukrainian). 13 January 2024. 1471: 1457: 1443: 1429: 1415: 1031:and was strongly opposed by the 966:In schools in Moldova, the term 876:In 1996, the Moldovan president 766:union of Bessarabia with Romania 759:History of the Romanian language 642:as their native language in the 504:adopted in 1994, while the 1991 160: 136: 3606:(in German). Bern: Peter Lang. 3512: 3479: 3453: 3428: 3393: 3354: 3335: 3312: 3282: 3270: 3258: 3228: 3205: 3175: 3163: 3154: 3134: 3130:(in Romanian). 30 January 2024. 3116: 3090: 3078: 3057: 3043: 3037:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 3025: 3007: 3003:(in Romanian). 10 October 2023. 2989: 2970: 2952: 2938: 2912: 2894: 2868: 2842: 2815: 2797: 2767: 2737: 2707: 2677: 2647: 2629: 2599: 2569: 2539: 2509: 2496: 2479: 2469: 2457: 2445: 2382: 2354: 2310: 2272: 2250: 2235: 2165: 2131: 1951: 1800: 1717:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 989:Constitutional Court of Moldova 803:Moldovan was assigned the code 684:. Until 1918, varieties of the 568:and another declaring it to be 530:Constitutional Court of Moldova 64:[ˈlimbamoldoveˈne̯askə] 4977:Academy of Sciences of Moldova 4971:Dicționar moldovenesc-românesc 4908:Romanian transitional alphabet 3858:Academy of Sciences of Moldova 3757:Dicționar moldovenesc-românesc 3440:Academy of Sciences of Moldova 2966:(in Romanian). 18 August 2023. 2781:(in Romanian). 16 March 2023. 2041:"The Sovietization of Moldova" 1705: 1558:(3rd ed.). Archived from 1544: 1524: 1316: 1179: 1037:Academy of Sciences of Moldova 1029:Party of Action and Solidarity 913:. In Moldova, the head of the 898:Dicționar Moldovenesc–Românesc 871:Academy of Sciences of Moldova 484: 367:Academy of Sciences of Moldova 47: 1: 5013:Influence on Slavic languages 3962:Moldavian Democratic Republic 3748:Revista de istorie a Moldovei 3739:Revista de istorie a Moldovei 3327:(in Romanian). Archived from 3220:(in Romanian). 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(1995). 1492:Legacy of the Roman Empire 1487:Eastern Romance substratum 1380:Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet 1360:Romanian Cyrillic alphabet 1327:Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet 1320: 1189: 1183: 1043:, the spokeswoman for the 703: 690:Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet 686:Romanian Cyrillic alphabet 480:Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet 18: 5128:Languages of Transnistria 5085: 5059: 5021: 4985: 4962:Dicționarul Limbii Române 4931: 4895: 4860: 4764: 4732: 4638: 4582: 4546: 4530: 4444: 4415:Controversy over identity 4368: 4325: 4316: 4261: 4252: 4165: 4156: 4142:Left Bank of the Dniester 4109: 4047: 4038: 4027: 3932: 3019:Кабінет Міністрів України 2374:: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( 2154: 2148: 2142: 1963:. Greenwood. p. 276. 1497:Moldova–Romania relations 1343:, in 2012. The phrase in 1083:Prime Minister of Ukraine 1076:Prime Minister of Romania 774:Romanian Linguistic Atlas 653:spoken in Moldova is the 266:Eastern Romance languages 248: 234: 217: 198: 179: 174: 150: 130:Official language in 128: 123: 86: 70: 58: 35: 30: 4240:Unification with Romania 3952:Principality of Moldavia 3526:South-East Europe Review 3347:28 February 2021 at the 2423:"2004 Population Census" 2244:Român, românesc, România 2242:Arvinte, Vasile (1983). 1997:Slavic Cataloging Manual 1990:(online ed.), quoted in 1969:"Moldova, Country Study" 800:— 'the state language'. 659:Principality of Moldavia 19:Not to be confused with 4840:traditional month names 4708:Argots and speech forms 4133:Autonomous territories 3863:11 October 2017 at the 3730:Europe Review 2003/2004 3147:8 February 2006 at the 2266:11 October 2012 at the 1959:Minahan, James (1989). 1866:"CBS AXA/IPP nov. 2012" 935:adopted a law defining 608:, promulgated the law. 516:adopted a law defining 3658:King, Charles (2000). 3414:sunt (suntem, sunteți) 2689:Europa Liberăb Moldova 1988:Encyclopædia Britannia 1616:Law No. 546/12-19-2003 1355: 1350: 1295:Benita Ferrero-Waldner 1250:In 2002, the Moldovan 1214: 1205: 1172: 1148: 1102: 987:In December 2013, the 897: 795: 723: 715: 634:, call their language 576:. 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(2004). 3421:11 April 2022 at the 1399:Minister of Education 1334: 1199: 1144: 1091:Ukrainians in Romania 721: 713: 273:Vulgar Latin language 4939:Transylvanian School 4830:Lexis and vocabulary 4524:Languages of Moldova 4355:Languages of Moldova 3882:on 12 February 2006. 3846:3 March 2009 at the 3438:– introduced by the 3279:, pp. 358, 364. 3214:"Din nou fără burse" 2583:. 24 December 2020. 2097:on 13 September 2006 1939:on 28 September 2007 1878:on 14 December 2013. 1597:on 26 February 2008. 1508:Balkan language area 1397:On 17 October 2016, 1115:President of Ukraine 1021:Romanians in Ukraine 882:name of the language 700:History and politics 655:Moldavian subdialect 602:president of Moldova 281:Thraco-Roman culture 4675:Republic of Moldova 4482:Transnistria topics 4101:Rudi Geodetic Point 3942:Prehistoric Balkans 3741:(in Romanian) (#2). 3732:. 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