by Guest Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:26 am
Moldova has been warned to stop referring to its language as Moldovan - and call it Romanian instead.
In a statement 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 new 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.
https://www.euronews.com/2020/01/30/moldova-warned-to-stop-calling-romanian-moldovan?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1580415830