Neil Harris wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Hello
Can someone make for the board a *short* and efficient summary of the whole mo.wikipedia.org situation ? Please, someone near-neutral, in an npov manner ?
Thanks
Ant
As an outsider to this argument, I know little other than what I have read on the mailing list and in articles, so I apologise in advance for any inaccuracies, but I think it goes something like this:
To a close approximation, Moldovan == Romanian, but written in Cyrillic, and is used in Moldova and Transnistria, which border Romania, and are closely historically and culturally related. There are considerably fewer mo: speakers (3.4 M in Rep. Moldova, 0.5M in Transnistria) than ro: speakers (24 M).
See [[Moldovan language]] for details.
As far I understand: Moldovan is written in Cyrillic only in Transnistria, while the rest of Moldova switched to the Latin script after gaining independence from the USSR; the Moldovan government states that the official language is called Moldovan, and it's the same language both in Moldova and Transnistria. Therefore, most of the Moldovan-speaking people have used Latin script for at least 15 years. For this reason, they don't think it is correct that the wikipedia called Moldovan uses Cyrillic. I understand they are ok to say Moldovan and Rumanian are the same language.
Marco (Cruccone)