You probably don't know the history of the language well. In fact both Romanian and Moldovans has been Orthodox Christians and used Cyrillic script for several ages.
Alexandru Niculescu: "Romanian is the only Romance language which has developed in the Eastern part of Latin Europe" Niculescu, Alexandru. Outline History of the Romanian Language. Bucharest: 1981
The first known text appeared in writing in 16th century (1521) which was written in a _variant_ of old cyrillic alphabet and it was used in Walachia and Moldova until the Re-Latinization in 1850s. Note that in the rest of Romania starting from the late 16th century, _LATIN_ alphabet was used with Hungarian spelling conventions (and switched to Italian spelling in 18th).
So let me count it...Uhm...It seems just in Walachia and Moldova until 1850 what you said is true, as for the rest of Romania - false, it has used latin script since the 16th century. So even for Moldova region of Romania it has been over 150 years since a variant of cyrillic alphabet has been used.
The modern Latin script is relatively a news in both lands.
Oy vey, 150 years is new for sure. So I guess that makes my mobile phone as modern as one could possibly imagine.
So one can's speak in such a self-confindent way about Moldovan Cyrillics as "decreed in the unfree days". By the way, do you know much about the unfree days? They were not totally that "unfree". :) Be more neutral. ;)
I know about those days, we've studied about them in school, I've talked to older people about them as well as discussed the matter with some professors from university, they were forced to know russian, the only books they had access to were russian, go figure how free and open is that.
Maybe it would be a good choice just to move the whole thing to __mo-cyr.wikipedia.org__, leaving at [[:mo:]] the two links -- to the Romanian and to the old-fashioned Cyrillic-written Moldovan.
No, people from Moldova should have control over mo.wikipedia.org, having a link on the main page to cyrillic is not acceptable, it's not our language, why should we put links to another language on the main page ? Let them have their weirdlanguage.wikipedia.org , but we shouldn't have any obligations to put a link to it.
Esperu cxiam!
Saluton.
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You said you moved to Moldova in 1991, so excuse me but how is it "your language"?
Mark
On 05/12/05, Field Nothing fieldtheory2@hotmail.com wrote:
You probably don't know the history of the language well. In fact both Romanian and Moldovans has been Orthodox Christians and used Cyrillic script for several ages.
Alexandru Niculescu: "Romanian is the only Romance language which has developed in the Eastern part of Latin Europe" Niculescu, Alexandru. Outline History of the Romanian Language. Bucharest: 1981
The first known text appeared in writing in 16th century (1521) which was written in a _variant_ of old cyrillic alphabet and it was used in Walachia and Moldova until the Re-Latinization in 1850s. Note that in the rest of Romania starting from the late 16th century, _LATIN_ alphabet was used with Hungarian spelling conventions (and switched to Italian spelling in 18th).
So let me count it...Uhm...It seems just in Walachia and Moldova until 1850 what you said is true, as for the rest of Romania - false, it has used latin script since the 16th century. So even for Moldova region of Romania it has been over 150 years since a variant of cyrillic alphabet has been used.
The modern Latin script is relatively a news in both lands.
Oy vey, 150 years is new for sure. So I guess that makes my mobile phone as modern as one could possibly imagine.
So one can's speak in such a self-confindent way about Moldovan Cyrillics as "decreed in the unfree days". By the way, do you know much about the unfree days? They were not totally that "unfree". :) Be more neutral. ;)
I know about those days, we've studied about them in school, I've talked to older people about them as well as discussed the matter with some professors from university, they were forced to know russian, the only books they had access to were russian, go figure how free and open is that.
Maybe it would be a good choice just to move the whole thing to __mo-cyr.wikipedia.org__, leaving at [[:mo:]] the two links -- to the Romanian and to the old-fashioned Cyrillic-written Moldovan.
No, people from Moldova should have control over mo.wikipedia.org, having a link on the main page to cyrillic is not acceptable, it's not our language, why should we put links to another language on the main page ? Let them have their weirdlanguage.wikipedia.org , but we shouldn't have any obligations to put a link to it.
Esperu cxiam!
Saluton.
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