Your question of "who regulates this language in Transnistria" assumes that a language needs regulation. This is not necessary at all...
Right. But a **standard**, like ISO-????, is about **standardisation**. That is, some form of standard language different from other standard languages in the dialect continuum. My question is: what will be the characteristics of Standard Moldovan, as defined by the standard?
You brought this standard in the discussion saying that it will close the Romanian vs. Moldovan discussion. I hope it will, but can't help asking myself how. Just assigning language codes is not sufficient. Someone has to say: this is standard RO, this is standard MO, beat off. Can you? Is ISO-???? going to define this? Or just follow, I repeat, old Soviet practices, by saying: On our side of the fronteer the language is called Moldovan with code MO, on yours it is called Romanian with code RO, and they are different?
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The whole discussion here
What you say about not needing regulatory bodies is simply that they are going to adopt the appro
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languages are recognised some are more like a language continuum.
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