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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.
Aug 1, 2017 · The Romanian language is the official language of Moldova. Russian, Gagauze, and Ukrainian are the major minority languages spoken in the country. A number of other European languages are also spoken in Moldova.
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In the breakaway region of Transnistria, Moldovan is declared an official language, together with Ukrainian and Russian. Standard Moldovan is widely considered to be identical to standard Romanian.
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As of March 2023, the only official language of Moldova is Romanian, and all references to the Moldovan language in the constitution and legal bills have been amended to refer to Romanian. [309] [310] The 2014 Moldovan census for the first time collected information about the languages spoken by residents in Moldova.
5 days ago · Moldova, landlocked country lying in the northeastern corner of the Balkan region of Europe. Its capital city is Chișinău, located in the south-central part of the country. Formerly known as Bessarabia, this region was an integral part of the Romanian principality of Moldavia until 1812, when it was ceded to Russia by its suzerain, the sultan ...
Apr 24, 2024 · Languages. Moldovan/Romanian 80.2% (official) (56.7% identify their mother tongue as Moldovan, which is virtually the same as Romanian; 23.5% identify Romanian as their mother tongue), Russian 9.7%, Gagauz 4.2% (a Turkish language), Ukrainian 3.9%, Bulgarian 1.5%, Romani 0.3%, other 0.2% (2014 est.); note - data represent mother tongue; as of ...
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 language.
