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Moldova was part of Romania until World War II, when it was annexed by the Soviet Union and Russian became the official language. During following half-century, Romanian was preserved in Moldovan ...
Candidates for the presidency of Moldova will for the first time be required to take a test on their knowledge of the state language. The elections are scheduled for October 20, according to Point.
Moldova's parliament on Thursday approved a law on referring to the national language as Romanian in all legislative texts and the constitution, despite opposition from a pro-Moscow communist party.
The Moldovan language is very similar to Romanian, however, has historically been written using Cyrillic script, like Russian, rather than Latin notation, like Romanian. Advertisement.
The phrase "Moldovan language" will be replaced with "Romanian language" in the texts of all Moldovan laws and regulations, including the Constitution of Moldova; the Moldovan parliament passed a ...
But at least Moldovan children will finally now know, courtesy of the Russian dictator, that their language is truly Romanian. The truth can be a bitter tonic, but it is the only one worth drinking.
MOSCOW. A recent decision by Moldovan lawmakers to rename the country's official language to Romanian raises questions about Moldova's territorial integrity, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman ...
During the Soviet period, Moscow artificially created a language called Moldovan and imposed the Cyrillic alphabet — which is also used for Russian — to write what is in fact the Romanian language. In ...
The Gagauz language might be small and shrinking, said Gullu Karanfil, a linguist and poet who teaches Gagauz and Turkish at Comrat State University, but, “it is part of a big linguistic family ...
It then reunited with Romania (the “Moldovan” language, a Soviet confection, is, in ... To Read the Full Story. Join NRPlus Login. Share 23 Comments .
LANGFITT: I think, in some ways, they are, you know, part because Russia shares a language, culture and history with Moldova, so the disinformation people know how to push the buttons there.