I think it is fair to say that no language "belongs" to a country, it belongs to all speakers... what about the hundreds of thousands of people who write Moldovan in Cyrillic?
Also I'm curious what Geni feels about them - using "mo" to refer to Cyrillic Moldovan is not, in my view, "inaccurate", although it is not as specific as perhaps it sh/could be. Mark On 8/31/09, Cetateanu Moldovanu <[email protected]> wrote: >>the world the language that you claim to be "your own" is written in > > I said OUR, OUR country, OUR language, OUR latin script and alphabet. Please > respect us. > > "The Moldovan language has often been successfully identified as and called > Romanian." > That's very true, that's why I'm asking, that's why I'm (and others > too) iritated to see "Молдовеняскэ" on your front page, just like in the > soviet occupation times. > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Gerard Meijssen > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hoi, >> French, English, German, Tamil and many other languages are not only >> spoken >> in the "country of origin". The Moldovan language has often been >> successfully identified as and called Romanian. When in this other area of >> the world the language that you claim to be "your own" is written in >> Cyrillic then it must be tough on you. >> >> Given that for all kinds of reasons the wikipedia you refer to may be >> removed makes the argument that the language is not yours anyway any less >> potent. >> Thanks, >> GerardM >> >> 2009/8/31 Cetateanu Moldovanu <[email protected]> >> >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > 20 years ago on 27 august 1989, 700 000 of moldovans (of a 4 millions >> > popoulation) went to the center of Chișinău (the capital of Moldova) to >> the >> > *Piața Marii Adunări Naționale*, the biggest square in the city, and >> shout >> > "limbă alfabet" (language and the alphabet) and for country >> > independence, >> > that event is called "Great National Assembly" (Marea Adunare Națională) >> > which declared it's language "Moldavian" and it's script "LATIN". >> > (here are a documental movie about this event >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BSfmhLOxO0, in the 4th part you can find >> > that declaration) >> > >> > Please respect that wish and delete the cyrllic mo.wikipedia.org that >> > claims >> > to be our language, and remove/change the name of our language written >> > in >> > cyrllic "Молдовеняскэ" on your first page wikipedia.org. >> > >> > Thank you wikipedia. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- skype: node.ue _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
