HISTORIC VOTE: “Romanian language” will replace “Moldovan language” in all laws of the Republic of Moldova – translation in comments

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  1. Full translation with DeepL:

    “The conditions that required the elaboration of the draft law result, undoubtedly, from the necessity and obligation to implement some considerations with constitutional value, contained in the acts of the High Court of Constitutional Jurisdiction and which establish an indisputable postulate, namely that the state language of the Republic of Moldova is Romanian. The present legislative initiative is not an ordinary initiative to amend the Constitution, but a technical one, resulting from the obligation to execute and/or implement the acts of the Constitutional Court”, it is stated in the information note of the draft Law on the implementation of the recitals of some decisions of the Constitutional Court.

    The draft provides for the obsolete text “operating on the basis of the Latin spelling” in Article 13 of the Constitution.

    Also, within 30 days of the entry into force of the law, the public authorities with competence to adopt, approve or issue normative acts inferior to the law will make the necessary amendments.

    The draft also provides that the National Holiday “Our Language”, as it is currently named in the Parliament Decision on commemorative days, holidays and rest days and in the Labour Code, will be called “Romanian Language”.

  7. Does anyone know just how different the languages are? Is this more akin to a spelling reform or is this actually a complete change of language?

  10. Aren’t the 2 languages like Greek and Cypriots?
    Basically the same language,with just some differences?

  12. Can’t Moldova join Romania and become one country? I am a ignorant on the topic, I read a few things here and there, but would Moldavans and Romanians be upset with this union?

  13. Finally!
    As a Moldovian born in 90s, at school we learned Romanian Language. There is no such thing as “Moldovian” language.

    “Moldovian” language is a purely Russian invention. Also, we are ethnically Romanians.

  15. As I understand it, it was mainly done to finally solve the language issue, as there always were always disputes over the name of language spoken in Moldova. Russian speakers for the most part called the language Moldovan, educated people called it Romanian, and some politicians didn’t want to offend neither and called it “state language”. It was about time to end this ambiguity and call a language by it’s name.

    Yes, the culture and dialects of Moldova have their Russian flavours and are slightly different than Romania’s, like all the Romanian regions are, but technically it’s the same language, and the dialect spoken by old people in a village from Republic of Moldova is exactly the same dialect spoken by old people in a village from Moldova region in Romania.

  16. Read this before you go into the wars in the comments.
    Why does this vote matter?
    There is a lot of “Moldovan language” that’s been mixed into laws and legislation over the years. It’s a sign that the government doesn’t support neither the nationalist nor the pro-Russian agenda. It’s more of a “formal” cleanup than anything else, doesn’t actually change anything other than public sentiment and clarifies where the current government stands.

    Some background:
    Moldovan is not a language, there have been attempts to make it one but as it currently stands it’s not one.

    In Moldova there are 2 major spoken languages: Romanian and Russian. Obviously people who speak both mix words from both languages into daily speech. Most Moldovans are perfectly capable of speaking pure Romanian (not all older people) and pure Russian (not all young people) when speaking to other nations. There are also other languages spoken such as Bulgarian and some form of Turkish but that’s mostly in some areas in the south and it’s also not the “modern version” of those languages. Look up Gagauzia if you’re interested.

    Moldovan as a language was heavily pushed during Soviet occupation as a way to remove Bessarabians (the region that is now Republic of Moldova) from the Romanian identity that they used to have.

    During Soviet occupation the region was also forced to use the Cyrillic alphabet and were writing “Romanian” with Cyrillic letters. There are 50-60 year olds nowadays who cannot spell properly in the Latin alphabet because they learned Romanian in the Cyrillic one.

    Moldova used to be a Kingdom and a pretty rich one (before taxes paid to other warmongering kingdoms) called Kingdom of Moldova and a lot of the arguments for the Moldovan language come from there.

    Moldova as a geographically region (e.g. the Plains of Moldova) stretch to the Carpathian mountains inside Romania.

    Attempts to “nationalize” Moldovans as a separate nations often revolve around having a “Moldovan language”. It’s often used by pro-Russian or anti-EU propaganda and political speech.

    Now go into the comments bravely

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