[Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia

[Marco Chiesa]

Neil Harris wrote:

>Anthere wrote:
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>>Hello
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>>Can someone make for the board a *short* and efficient summary of the 
>>whole mo.wikipedia.org situation ?
>>Please, someone near-neutral, in an npov manner ?
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>>Thanks
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>>Ant
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>As an outsider to this argument, I know little other than what I have 
>read on the mailing list and in articles, so I apologise in advance for 
>any inaccuracies, but I think it goes something like this:
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>To a close approximation, Moldovan == Romanian, but written in Cyrillic, 
>and is used in Moldova and Transnistria, which border Romania, and are 
>closely historically and culturally related.  There are considerably 
>fewer mo: speakers (3.4 M in Rep. Moldova, 0.5M in Transnistria) than 
>ro: speakers (24 M).
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>See [[Moldovan language]] for details.
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As far I understand: Moldovan is written in Cyrillic only in 
Transnistria, while the rest of Moldova switched to the Latin script 
after gaining independence from the USSR; the Moldovan government states 
that the official language is called Moldovan, and it's the same 
language both in Moldova and Transnistria. Therefore, most of  the 
Moldovan-speaking people have used Latin script for at least 15 years. 
For this reason, they don't think it is correct that the wikipedia 
called Moldovan uses Cyrillic. I understand they are ok to say Moldovan 
and Rumanian are the same language.

Marco (Cruccone)