Hello,
[I will assume that in your previous post it was Moldovan that you mentioned, and not Montenegrin.]
Romanian, yes. But Moldovan - a linguistic entity? It depends on what you mean by "linguistic entity". If it is "language" that you mean, this is more than disputable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_language (as mentioned earlier, one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Statilinguist supports this thesis). Current content on the Moldovan Wikipedia (for examplehttp://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8F%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%8D) cannot qualify as belonging to a Moldovan language. It is _not_ the Moldovan dialect written in Cyrillic. It is standard Romanian written in Cyrillic(with stylistic faults, in the previous example). How can the Language Committee consider standard Romanian written in Cyrillic as a separate, distinct linguistic entity? This content might qualify as belonging to a Moldovan language, but this is a pure Soviet times POV taken directly from the Central Committee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Committee. And I don't think the WMF would agree accepting such a stance.
What concerns the people.. The people living in Transnistria now and Moldovans before share the same "Moldovan language" (probably with certain differences during years, due to political changes). This is irrelevant to my arguments concerning the linguistic aspects of the issue.
WMF will never tell Romania how its street signs should look like, Romania cannot tell WMF how a wiki page should look like.
Romania doesn't. Romanians do. And more important, perhaps, Moldovans do.
If you pointed out this remark, I most definitely hope that someone from Transnistria speak up on the Wikipedia mailing-list in some near future.
Regards, Liviu
On 2/12/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Appreciate that Romanian and Montenegrin are understood as the names for linguistic entities. In your reply you relate to people. You forget to name the people living in Transnistria. Thanks, Gerard