Moldova officially named its state language Romanian
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President of Moldova Maia Sandu on Wednesday signed a decree on renaming the state language from Moldovan to Romanian. Last week, such a decision was approved by the country’s parliament. The bill was submitted to the parliament at the end of February.
On her Facebook page, Maya Sandu stated that the Romanian language will serve as a catalyst for the strengthening of society and its integration into the European Union. “Those who told us for decades in a row that we, the citizens of the Republic of Moldova, speak “Moldovan” and not Romanian, followed only one thing: to divide us. Those who asked to divide us were not worried about linguistics, but about , how to keep Moldova in the eternal national dispute,” Sandu wrote.
- Moldavian and Romanian languages are very close to each other. During the period of existence of the Moldavian SSR, the script was changed from Latin to Cyrillic. In 1989, after the separation of Moldova from the USSR, the parliament approved Moldovan as the state language and translated it from Cyrillic to Latin. Now the languages differ little from each other, so it was about renaming the state language, and not about switching from one language to another.
- Romania is a member of the European Union. Moldova is a candidate country from 2022. Many citizens of Moldova, like President Maia Sandu herself, also have Romanian citizenship.
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