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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. There is a significant controversy over whether Moldova's official language should be called "Romanian" or "Moldovan".
[2] [3] Moldovan was declared the official language of Moldova in Article 13 of the constitution adopted in 1994, [4] while the 1991 Declaration of Independence of Moldova used the name Romanian. In 2003, the Moldovan parliament adopted a law defining Moldovan and Romanian as glottonyms for the same language. [5]
Romanian is the official language of the Republic of Moldova. The 1991 Declaration of Independence named the official language Romanian, [ 62 ] [ 63 ] and the Constitution of Moldova as originally adopted in 1994 named the state language of the country Moldovan .
As of March 2023, the only official language of Moldova is Romanian, and all references to the Moldovan language in the constitution and legal bills have been amended to refer to Romanian. [ 181 ] [ 182 ] The 2014 Moldovan census for the first time collected information about the languages spoken by residents in Moldova.
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 ...
On 31 August 1989, the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR adopted Moldovan as the official language with Russian retained only for secondary purposes, returned Moldovan to the Latin alphabet, and declared a shared Moldovan-Romanian linguistic identity. As plans for major cultural changes in Moldova were made public, tensions rose further.
The 1994 Constitution calls the official language Moldovan, while the 1991 Moldovan Declaration of Independence refers to it as Romanian." [ 1 ] [ 16 ] The national school curriculum for 2012–13 lists the subjects "Limba și literatura română" (Romanian language and literature) and "Istoria românilor și universală" (literally History of ...
Welcome (Bine ați venit!) sign in Moldovan Cyrillic in Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria, in 2012. The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet designed for the Romanian language spoken in the Soviet Union and was in official use from 1924 to 1932 and 1938 to 1989 (and still in use today in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria).