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https://www.euronews.com/2020/01/30/moldova-warned-to-stop-calling-romanian-moldovan
Moldova warned to stop calling Romanian Moldovan
Moldova has been warned to stop referring to its language as Moldovan - and call it Romanian instead.
In a statement on Friday, the Romanian Academy, a government-backed cultural institute, said that the language referred to in Moldova as Moldovan is in fact a dialect of Romanian.
It said that the language should be referred to as Romanian just as the language Austrians speak is German and non-Flemish Belgians speak French.
"Promoting the idea of ​​a Moldovan language distinct from the Romanian one is not only a distortion of a cultural reality and identity, but also an ideological manipulation on which the international community will never accept,” it said.
It comes after Moldova’s president, Igor Dodon, spoke in favour of the Moldovan language during a speech at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and as relations between Romania and Moldova have been strained by new governments in both countries.
Dodon, who was elected in 2016, has pursued closer ties with Vladimir Putin’s Russia and has clashed with Romania’s new leader Ludovic Orban, who was appointed prime minister in 2019 and has promised to restore Bucharest’s tattered relationship with Brussels.
In his speech on 29 January, Dodon said Moldova was committed to establishing a united Europe “from Lisbon to Vladivostok,” a city in the far east of Russia.
But the row over language goes far further back than the last elections, said Dionis Cenusa, a researcher at JLU University in Germany.
“The linguistic issue has its roots from the Soviet times when the Soviets created an artificial Moldovan identity different from the Romanian one,” he said.
Romania and Moldova were first unified in 1918 after the end of World War I but was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940. After the end of World War II it became part of the Soviet Union until it declared independence in 1992 during the Glasnost era.
Ever since, Moldova has been subject to a tug-of-war between Romania and Russia, compounded by Russia’s designs on its breakaway region of Transnistria, into which Moscow funnels cash in payouts and subsidies and stations hundreds of soldiers.
While Dodon’s closeness to Moscow has angered Bucharest, many Moldovans speak Russian as a first language and feel closer to Russia than to Romania.
In the country's last census - in 2004 - 60% of people identified their first language as Moldovan, and only 19% said Romanian was their native language. In its 2008 constitution, the language of Moldova is defined as ‘Moldovan’ and not Romanian.
Meanwhile, just 34% of Moldovans favour unification with Romania, according to a recent poll.
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