Hi there...
Although not Moldovian or Romanian, I would like to bring some "outsiders" insight to this discusion that seems (to me) more of a political issue.
I recall the problem with the, then known, Serbo-Croat. It was very similar writen in Latin and Cyrilic scripts. Today, by a strong degree of political pressure, the language is refered as Croat in Croatia and Serb in Serbia. I understand that Serb and Croat have some distinct diffrences but are largely the some language writen in different scripts.
If this situation is similar to the ro and mo issue, then the mere fact that Moldovian is the recognized and oficial language of a soveran state should give it the right to existe as a seperated wiki.
But I not in for a dispute (I'm portuguese)
On 07/03/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
It seems that I need to justify my participation in this discussion. I have two arguments for it: 1. Fluency in Moldovan. By any linguistic standards I speak the Moldovan dialect of Romanian (with the accent). And I do it correctly. This fact alone should allow me to participate in the vote and discussions. I can even read and write using cyrillic script. Correctly. :)
Somehow I doubt you are able to read and write "correctly" in Cyrillic.
Mark, I have some questions which I think you should answer before anyone takes you seriously on this matter:
- How old are you?
- Where do you live?
- Where were you brought up?
- How many languages do you claim to speak?
- How did you learn those languages?
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