Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin <antonio at tuvalkin dot web dot pt> wrote:
> As for your question: both governments (and "their" people), while > keeping their armies and recyprocal independence (for now), agree > that it is the same language, even if they may some day disagree about > its name. (E.g., the 19th cent. saw a number of wars in South America > -- common language did not avert hostility nor did create unity among > neighbours.) Seeing that Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian have been given their own separate ISO 639 codes, for almost purely political reasons (they are dialects), I doubt it's necessary to worry about erasing the political distinction between Romanian and Moldavian. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

