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The variety of Romanian spoken in Moldova is the Moldavian subdialect, which is spread approximately within the territory of the former Principality of Moldavia (now split between Romania, Moldova and Ukraine). Moldavian is considered one of the five major spoken varieties of Romanian.
În 1989, limba moldovenească a fost declarată limbă oficială a Moldovei (pe atunci încă RSS Moldovenească), iar folosirea alfabetului latin a fost restaurată. După declararea independenței Moldovei în 1991, constituția a continuat promovarea existenței limbii moldovenești.
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.
The Dicționar moldovenesc-românesc ("Moldovan–Romanian dictionary") is a dictionary compiled by Vasile Stati and published in 2003 in Chișinău in Moldova. Being the first and only one of its kind, it contains 19,000 allegedly Moldovan (one of the two names for the Romanian language in Moldova) words that are explained in Romanian.
Languages of Moldova Last updated June 01, 2024. Languages of Moldova; Official: Romanian: Minority: Russian, Gagauz, Ukrainian, Bulgarian,: Foreign: English, French ...
Moldovan is a variety or dialect of Romanian spoken in Moldova, northeast Romania, Transnistria, Ukraine and Russia. In 2014 there were about 2.2 million speakers in Moldova.
Moldovan or Moldavian is one of the two local names for the Romanian language in Moldova. Moldovan was declared the official language of Moldova in Article 13 of the constitution adopted in 1994, while the 1991 Declaration of Independence of Moldova used the name Romanian.
