The official languages of Transnistria/Transdniester/PMR are Moldovan, Ukrainian, and Russian.
The sole official script of Transnistria is Cyrillic.
Moldovans and Romanians alike are outraged by this, not necessarily because Cyrillic is bad in and of itself, but because they feel there is no freedom of choice, and that Cyrillic is forced on people.
A few years ago, that was certainly 100% true; today it is true but only to a certain degree.
Schools teaching in the Latin alphabet were closed. However, after problems with Moldova over the issue and even international human rights organisations, they allowed one or two of the schools to reopen, but as private schools rather than governmental institutions.
The main Latin alphabet school in Tiraspol today is overcrowded. There are not enough desks for all of the students, so some have to sit on the floor. They are run by donations only because many of the students could not afford the tuition of a private school.
The school buildings are decrepit and in need of repair, and in obvious violation of any reasonable fire code.
However, the majority of students educated in Moldovan in Trasnistria go to public schools where Cyrillic is taught. Many children whose native language is Moldovan, are sent to Russian schools instead because their parents feel it will give them an advantage in the future.
Never for a minute in Transnistria has Latin been the regular alphabet at any time in the last 70 years.
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But it remains that there are questionable happenings related to Latin script in Transnistria.
Anyhow it's true that some people use Cyrillic. It's easier to be allowed to read something in Moldovan in Transnistria if it's in Cyrillic, supposedly, and another generation of children is growing up with it, just like their parents before them.
Mark
On 03/12/05, Александр Сигачёв alexander.sigachov@gmail.com wrote:
But it is undenyable that some people rather write in Cyrillic.
I see romanian is not the only language you are having problems with, it's "undeniable" last time I checked my dictionary. That aside, what do you have to back up your affirmation, I live here, I see the situation, I haven't seen anyone writing anything in cyrillic romanian/moldovan. And an important note is that we don't have something like "Moldovan language" in schools, the course is called "Romanian language/Limba Romana", we don't even have a "History of Moldova" it's "History of Romania".
But what about Transdnistria? As I know, they use Moldovan language (also Russian and Ukrainian) but use Cyrillic script.
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