As I have indicated before, the Moldovan language
entity will be part of
future development of the ISO-639. I have inside
information to this
effect from the ISO-639-6 standard that is under
development.
Can you tell us more on these developments? Are there
publicly-available documents?
I'm interested in one main point: is Moldovan going to
be Latin-scripted, or Cyrillic-scripted?
This is important, because the choices are:
1. Moldovan is the latin-scripted language of the
Republic of Moldova, in which case there is no
regulatory board. Or, more precisely, there is one
(the Academy of Moldova), but it says "standard
Moldovan = standard Romanian".
2. Moldovan is the cyrillic-scripted language of
Transnistria, an entity recognized by nobody. BTW, who
regulates this language in Transnistria?
3. Moldovan is copied from old standards, maybe
without any assumption as to what it is, leaving it as
an object of contention and a relic of the cold war.
Dpotop
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