177.204 vs 2,578,322 (I would dispute that number based on literacy rates, and the fact that some people are literate in Cyrillic but not Latin in the countryside)... I don't see a reason why the approximately 6,4 % of all "Moldovan" speakers should just be ignored. Do you have one?
Yes, they're not the majority. That's why it's a biscriptal portal, and cyrillic is placed _second_
Mark
On 06/12/05, Adrenalin adrenalinup@gmail.com wrote:
Let's admit what Moldavian people from Transnistria use the cyrillic script, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria#2004_census
Transnistrian 2004 census:
- Total population (including Tighina): 555.500
- Moldovans: 31.9%
That's 177.204 Moldovans ppl, what are forced to use the Cyrillic alphabet. (forced? see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria#Political_status). But i'm still not sure what they all write in Cyrillic.
Now let's see how many Moldovans use the latin script. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova#Ethnic_composition) According to the 2004 census Moldovans: 76.1% from 3,388,071 ppl. That's 2,578,322 of Moldovans what use latin script in write. And since Moldovian language are the only official language in Moldova, the other 23,9% also must know to speak and write the official language using official script.
So we see: In Transnistria, people what are forced to write the Moldovian language in Cyrillic: 177.204 In Moldova, people what write his language in latin: 2,578,322 (or even more).
So why must 2,578,322 of ppl to see his language in cyrillic on Wikipedia just because of the Transnistrian 177.204 Moldovans what are forced by a internationally unrecognised state maintained by Russian forces(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria) to use cyrillic ? _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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