At 17:22 -0700 2004-08-19, Peter Constable wrote:
> >OK. For managing language resources, what ID should one use?
> I would use Moldavian for text written in Soviet-era Cyrillic.
Since the language did not significantly change, that would amount to make the distinction between ro and mo a script distinction, which is out of scope for ISO 639 and probably not the best idea (though it is one possibility I mentioned to JAC members).
It is unlikely that Soviet Moldavian was spared the importation of Russian vocabulary and abbreviations (kolkhoz and the like), so there would be more than just a script difference.
I would use Moldavian for text written in Soviet-era Cyrillic.
This is not the same thing as Cyrillic-written Romanian from the 19th or previous centuries, though.
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