{"id":447975,"date":"2020-02-03T05:55:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T05:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=447975"},"modified":"2020-02-03T06:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:01:21","slug":"international-language-dispute-moldovans-are-warned-to-stop-calling-romanian-language-moldovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/international-language-dispute-moldovans-are-warned-to-stop-calling-romanian-language-moldovan\/","title":{"rendered":"International language dispute: Moldovans are warned to stop calling the Romanian language &#8220;Moldovan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>President Igor Dodon and his declarations about the<em> &#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> language have caught again the international media&#8217;s attention. Euronews has published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/01\/30\/moldova-warned-to-stop-calling-romanian-moldovan?fbclid=IwAR0Ad99R5gk8wOI3_TlckGabaazU1mFk-VwMx5XU4VblNxjNP3HbNYXH8mg\">article<\/a> stating that Moldova has been warned to stop calling the Romanian language &#8220;Moldovan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian Academy, a government-backed cultural institute, has made an official <a href=\"https:\/\/acad.ro\/com2020\/doc\/d0130-Declaratie_limba_romana_Basarabia.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2i9spSRMgYcbT6MtvcQc0-IUwlK4xXacWQOG6qFi37Jyht01KegWz-7II\">declaration<\/a> saying that the <em>&#8220;Moldovan language&#8221;<\/em> invoked by certain politicians from Moldova is, in fact, <span style=\"color: #993300\">a dialect of the Romanian language<\/span>.\u00a0<em>&#8220;To promote the idea of a &#8220;Moldovan&#8221; language, distinct from the Romanian one, is not only a distortion of a cultural reality and identity documented in all linguistic, historical and literary syntheses, but also an ideological manipulation, which the international community will never accept,&#8221;<\/em> is mentioned in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was issued after President Igor Dodon, spoke in favour of the <em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> language during a speech at the <strong>Council of Europe<\/strong> in Strasbourg, while the relations between the Governments of Romania and Moldova have been strained, as it is mentioned in the Euronews article.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech on 29 January, Dodon said Moldova was committed to establishing a united Europe <em>\u201cfrom Lisbon to Vladivostok,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(a city in the far east of Russia).<\/p>\n<p>The political scientist and researcher <strong>Dionis Cenu\u0219\u0103<\/strong> explained the root cause of the existing problem for the international media outlet: <em>\u201cThe linguistic issue has its roots from the Soviet times, when the Soviets created an artificial Moldovan identity different from the Romanian one,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The use of the Romanian versus Moldovan language rhetoric has been damaging to the public discourse in both Bucharest and Chi\u0219in\u0103u, triggering and fuelling political conflicts on a matter will eventually prove to be detrimental to the people&#8217;s interests,&#8221;<\/em> declared\u00a0<strong>Radu Magdin<\/strong>, a political analyst.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Although Moldova is a separate state, there is no question that the language spoken by the majority of Moldovans is Romanian.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2013, the <strong>Constitutional Court of Moldova<\/strong>\u00a0delivered a decision according to which, the Romanian and <em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> languages were declared identical. However, the Article 13 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parlament.md\/CadrulLegal\/Constitution\/tabid\/151\/language\/ro-RO\/Default.aspx\">Constitution of the Republic of Moldova<\/a> still states that the official language in Moldova is <em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em>, that being a usual matter of political and social disputes in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data provided by the National Bureau of Statistics, <strong>53%<\/strong> of the total population of the Republic of Moldova declared <em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> as their first language, whereas only<strong> 23,3%<\/strong> said Romanian was their native language at the 2014 national <a href=\"https:\/\/statistica.gov.md\/pageview.php?l=ro&amp;idc=479\">census<\/a>. When it comes to the ethnical structure of the population, 75,1% declared themselves Moldovans and 7% Romanians.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Romanian Academy expressly requests the authorities of the Republic of Moldova to keep in the official use the correct and consecrated notions\u00a0 of <em>&#8220;Romanian language&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;Romanian history&#8221;<\/em>, as the only ones valid for naming the present realities.&#8221; (The Romanian Academy)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More details about the historical context of the\u00a0<em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> language term\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/official-language-moldova-moldovan-language-actually-exist\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Radio Iasi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>President Igor Dodon and his declarations about the &#8220;Moldovan&#8221; language have caught again the international media&#8217;s attention. Euronews has published an article stating that Moldova has been warned to stop calling the Romanian language &#8220;Moldovan&#8221;. The Romanian Academy, a government-backed cultural institute, has made an official declaration saying that the &#8220;Moldovan language&#8221; invoked by certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":447977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3,4],"tags":[570,569,509,568,35,567,27,33],"class_list":["post-447975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-society","tag-constitution","tag-declaration","tag-dispute","tag-euronews","tag-important","tag-language","tag-moldova","tag-romania"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>President Igor Dodon and his declarations about the<em> &#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> language have caught again the international media&#8217;s attention. Euronews has published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/01\/30\/moldova-warned-to-stop-calling-romanian-moldovan?fbclid=IwAR0Ad99R5gk8wOI3_TlckGabaazU1mFk-VwMx5XU4VblNxjNP3HbNYXH8mg\">article<\/a> stating that Moldova has been warned to stop calling the Romanian language &#8220;Moldovan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian Academy, a government-backed cultural institute, has made an official <a href=\"https:\/\/acad.ro\/com2020\/doc\/d0130-Declaratie_limba_romana_Basarabia.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2i9spSRMgYcbT6MtvcQc0-IUwlK4xXacWQOG6qFi37Jyht01KegWz-7II\">declaration<\/a> saying that the <em>&#8220;Moldovan language&#8221;<\/em> invoked by certain politicians from Moldova is, in fact, <span style=\"color: #993300\">a dialect of the Romanian language<\/span>.\u00a0<em>&#8220;To promote the idea of a &#8220;Moldovan&#8221; language, distinct from the Romanian one, is not only a distortion of a cultural reality and identity documented in all linguistic, historical and literary syntheses, but also an ideological manipulation, which the international community will never accept,&#8221;<\/em> is mentioned in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was issued after President Igor Dodon, spoke in favour of the <em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> language during a speech at the <strong>Council of Europe<\/strong> in Strasbourg, while the relations between the Governments of Romania and Moldova have been strained, as it is mentioned in the Euronews article.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech on 29 January, Dodon said Moldova was committed to establishing a united Europe <em>\u201cfrom Lisbon to Vladivostok,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(a city in the far east of Russia).<\/p>\n<p>The political scientist and researcher <strong>Dionis Cenu\u0219\u0103<\/strong> explained the root cause of the existing problem for the international media outlet: <em>\u201cThe linguistic issue has its roots from the Soviet times, when the Soviets created an artificial Moldovan identity different from the Romanian one,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The use of the Romanian versus Moldovan language rhetoric has been damaging to the public discourse in both Bucharest and Chi\u0219in\u0103u, triggering and fuelling political conflicts on a matter will eventually prove to be detrimental to the people&#8217;s interests,&#8221;<\/em> declared\u00a0<strong>Radu Magdin<\/strong>, a political analyst.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Although Moldova is a separate state, there is no question that the language spoken by the majority of Moldovans is Romanian.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2013, the <strong>Constitutional Court of Moldova<\/strong>\u00a0delivered a decision according to which, the Romanian and <em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> languages were declared identical. However, the Article 13 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parlament.md\/CadrulLegal\/Constitution\/tabid\/151\/language\/ro-RO\/Default.aspx\">Constitution of the Republic of Moldova<\/a> still states that the official language in Moldova is <em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em>, that being a usual matter of political and social disputes in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data provided by the National Bureau of Statistics, <strong>53%<\/strong> of the total population of the Republic of Moldova declared <em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> as their first language, whereas only<strong> 23,3%<\/strong> said Romanian was their native language at the 2014 national <a href=\"https:\/\/statistica.gov.md\/pageview.php?l=ro&amp;idc=479\">census<\/a>. When it comes to the ethnical structure of the population, 75,1% declared themselves Moldovans and 7% Romanians.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Romanian Academy expressly requests the authorities of the Republic of Moldova to keep in the official use the correct and consecrated notions\u00a0 of <em>&#8220;Romanian language&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;Romanian history&#8221;<\/em>, as the only ones valid for naming the present realities.&#8221; (The Romanian Academy)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More details about the historical context of the\u00a0<em>&#8220;Moldovan&#8221;<\/em> language term\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/official-language-moldova-moldovan-language-actually-exist\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Radio Iasi<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' 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