* Marcus Buck <[email protected]> [Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:39:39 +0200]: > If you are interested in the facts: > There are 19.7 million speakers of Romanian in Romania. There are 2.6 > million speakers of Romanian in Moldova (they call their language either > Romanian or Moldovan, but it's the same language as in Romania). Both > Romania and Moldova write the language with Romanian script. Then there > are 177,000 speakers of Romanian living in Transnistria. Transnistria is > officially part of Moldova, but it is a de facto independant state. > Transnistria's population is about one third Romanian, one third Russian > and one third Ukrainian. When Moldova became independant in 1991 the > Russian group in Transnistria feared that their privileged status would > change and that Romanian would become the most privileged language in > the new state. A civil war broke out and supported by Russian troops > Transnistria became a de facto independant state. This state holds > Russophile policies and the Romanian language (called Moldovan) is > written in Cyrillic. The Cyrillic script was introduced by the Soviets > as a measure of cultural Sovietization. > Cyrillic scripts were there well before Soviet Union existed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Cyrillic_alphabet
Although, the Soviet Union used the modified version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_Cyrillic_alphabet I am not about to defend it. But saying that Cyrillic was not there before FSU is not true. Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
