Romanian language
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Romanian is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved from several dialects of Vul
Neacșu's letter is the oldest surviving document written in Old Romanian that can be precisely dated
Lithograph of a group portrait by Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, showing Paris-based revolutionaries during the early 1840s. From left: Rosenthal (wearing a Phrygian cap), C. A. Rosetti, Vasile Mălinescu [ro]
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Hurmuzaki Psalter, dated between 1491 and 1504.
Moldovan language
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Moldovan or Moldavian is one of the two local names for the Romanian language in Moldova. Moldovan was declared the official language of Moldova in Article 13 of the constitution adopted in 1994, whil
Romanian language
…Serbia and Ukraine), and by the large Romanian diaspora. In total, it is spoken by 22 million people as a first language. Romanian was also known as Moldovan in Moldova, although the Constitutional Court of Moldova ruled in 2013 that "the official language of Moldova is Romanian". On 16 March 2023, the…
Book in a supposed Moldovan language published in interwar Romania
Octavian Armașu of Südzucker Moldova giving a presentation in Drochia in Russian, 2010. Since Soviet times, Russian usage has remained more common in Moldova than in Romania, having influenced the Moldovan dialect
Demonstration in Chișinău, January 2002. The text on the inscription is "Romanian people—Romanian language".
A welcome sign in Moldovan Cyrillic in Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria, in 2012. The phrase in Latin alphabet is Bine ați venit!