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  2. Languages of Moldova - Wikipedia

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    The official state language of Moldova is Romanian, which is the native language of 78.6% of the population (as of the 2014 Census); it is also spoken as a primary language by other ethnic minorities. Gagauz, Russian, and Ukrainian languages are granted official regional status in Gagauzia and/or Transnistria.

  3. Moldovan language - Wikipedia

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    From a linguistic perspective, Moldovan is an alternative name for the varieties of the Romanian language spoken in the Republic of Moldova (see History of the Romanian language). Before 1918, during the period between the wars, and after the union of Bessarabia with Romania , scholars did not have consensus that Moldovans and the Romanians ...

  4. Russians in Moldova - Wikipedia

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    380,796 people (11.25%) identify Russian as their native language, and some 540,990 (16%) speak it as first language in daily use, including 130,000 ethnic Moldovans. It is the first language for 93.2% of ethnic Russians , and a primary language for 4.9% of Moldovans, 50.0% of Ukrainians, 27.4% of Gagauz, 35.4% of Bulgarians, and 54.1% of other ...

  5. Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova

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    The Soviet propaganda also sought to secure a separate status for the varieties of the Romanian language spoken in the USSR. Thus, it imposed the use of a Cyrillic script derived from the Russian alphabet, and promoted the exclusive use of the name "Moldovan language", forbidding the use of the name "Romanian language". The harsh anti-Romanian ...

  6. Gagauz language - Wikipedia

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    Gagauz (/ ɡ ə ˈ ɡ ɔː z /; gagauz dili or gagauzça) is a Turkic language spoken by the Gagauz people of Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey and it is an official language of the Autonomous Region of Gagauzia in Moldova. Gagauz belongs to the Oghuz branch of Turkic languages, alongside Azerbaijani, Turkmen, and Turkish.

  7. Limba noastră - Wikipedia

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    The focus of "Limba noastră" is language, hence its namesake; in this case, the official language of Moldova, namely Romanian.. The Constitution of Moldova refers to the country's official language as Romanian, and similarly in December 2013, a decision of the Constitutional Court of Moldova ruled that the Declaration of Independence takes precedence over the Constitution and that the state ...

  8. Moldova faces a tug of war between Russia and the West in two ...

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    Moldova, an eastern European country of some 2.5 million people sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, has veered between pro-Western and pro-Russian courses since the end of the Cold War.

  9. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Moldova: 10 4 14 0.20 2,718,530 339,816 107,000