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On 2 March 2023, the Moldovan parliament voted to replace the phrases "Moldovan language", "state language" and "official language" in Moldovan legislation with the phrase "Romanian language". The change was presented not as a constitutional change, but only a technical one, as it would implement the 2013 decision of the Constitutional Court of ...
- Synonym of Romanian
In the 2004 census, 2,564,542 people (75.8% of the population of the country) declared their native language as "Moldovan" or "Romanian"; 2,495,977 (73.8%) speak it as first language in daily use.
The national language is Romanian, a Romance language, though approximately 15% of the Moldovan population also speak Russian as of 2014. The country has been suffering from long-term population decline due to high levels of emigration (in 2022, 43,000 more people left the country than came) as well as low fertility rates.
Moldova (în engleză Moldavia, în germană Moldau, în franceză Moldavie, în rusă Молдавия, Молдова, în turcă Boğdan, în poloneză Mołdawia) este o regiune istorică și geografică a Europei, delimitată la vest de către Carpații Orientali și la est de către râul Nistru și care corespunde vechiului Principat al Moldovei. În prezent, arealul este împărțit ...
The language of Moldova was officially known as Moldovan (лимба молдовеняскэ), and was written with the Cyrillic alphabet. Since 1989 the Moldovan (Romanian) language in Moldova has been written with the same Latin alphabet as Romanian, although some orthographic changes adopted in Romanian are not generally used in Moldova.
Zone majoritare Zone minoritare sau bilingve Țări și teritorii vorbitoare de limbă română țară vorbitori (%) vorbitori populație (2012) Terra 0.33% 23 623 890 7 035 000 000 România, Republica Moldova și țările vecine oficială: România 90.65% 17 263 561 19 043 767 Republica Moldova 2 76,5% 2 588 355 (2004) 3 383 332 Transnistria 3 31,9% 177 050 (2004) 555 500 Voivodina (Serbia) 1 ...
Moldovan, also called 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. In 2003, the Moldovan parliament adopted a law defining Moldovan and Romanian as glottonyms for the same ...
