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The Dicționar moldovenesc-românesc ("Moldovan–Romanian dictionary") is a dictionary compiled by Vasile Stati and published in 2003 in Chișinău in Moldova.Being the first and only one of its kind, it contains 19,000 allegedly Moldovan (one of the two names for the Romanian language in Moldova) words that are explained in Romanian.
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The history of the Moldovan language refers to the historical evolution of the glottonym Moldavian/Moldovan in Moldova and beyond. It is closely tied to the region's political status, as during long periods of rule by Russia and the Soviet Union , officials emphasized the language's name as part of separating the Moldovans from those people who ...
The Moldavian dialect is the representative of the northern grouping of Romanian dialects and has influenced the Romanian spoken over large areas of Transylvania.. The Moldavian and the Wallachian dialects are the only two that have been consistently identified and recognized by linguists.
In 2003 he published the first Moldovan–Romanian dictionary, which caused a wave of criticism from the Romanian and Moldovan scientific and political circles, as contrary to the dominant current paradigm of the unity of the two languages. It contained a foreword whose purpose was to prove that the Moldovan language is distinct from Romanian.
Moldovan and Moldavian refer to something of, from, or related to Moldova or Moldavia. In particular, it may refer to: Moldovans, the main ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova; Moldavians, the inhabitants of the historical territory of the Principality of Moldavia (14th century to 1859) Moldavians, residents of Moldavia (region of Romania)
Moldovan Cyrillic spellings are also used in the media and in governmental publications in the Republic of Moldova for the names of settlements when writing in Russian, as opposed to using their Russian forms (e.g. Кишинэу is used in place of Кишинёв for the name of the city of Chișinău). [5]
"Moldovan is in fact the mother of the Romanian language. To call it Romanian is to betray history and to commit injustice to your own mother." "Vorbim aceeași limbă, chiar dacă o numim diferit." [43] "We speak the same language [in Romania and Moldova], even though we call it differently."