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	Cyrillic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The layout of the alphabet is derived from the early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet, a ninth century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers from Thessaloniki, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
		The alphabet was disseminated along with the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and the alphabet used for modern Church Slavonic language in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic rites still resembles early Cyrillic.
		The Cyrillic alphabet was used for the Azerbaijani language from 1939 to 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet (3147 words)

	Moldovan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moldovan is the official name for the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova and in the territory of Transnistria.
		Moldovan may be written in either the Latin alphabet (currently official in the Republic of Moldova) or in the Cyrillic alphabet (official in the unrecognized state of Transnistria and formerly in the Moldavian SSR until 1989).
		The history of the Moldovan (Romanian) language in Moldova is closely tied to the region's political status, with long periods of occupation by Russia and the Soviet Union influencing the language's name and orthography.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moldovan_language (1030 words)

	Cyrillic alphabet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The plan of the alphabet is derived from the early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet, a ninth century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers from Thessaloniki, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
		The theory is supported by the fact that the Cyrillic alphabet almost completely replaced the Glagolitic in northeastern Bulgaria as early as the end of the tenth century, whereas the Ohrid Literary School—where Saint Clement worked—continued to use the Glagolitic until the twelfth century.
		The alphabet was disseminated along with the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and the alphabet used for modern Church Slavonic language in Eastern Orthodox rites still resembles early Cyrillic.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Cyrillic_alphabet (2987 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Slavs in Moldova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Under Stalin, the traditional Latin alphabet of the Romanian language was replaced with the Cyrillic alphabet in an attempt to foster the perception of Moldavia as a separate nationality from Romanian.
		Moldovan Supreme Soviet declares its sovereignty and nullifies the transfer of Moldavia from Romania to the USSR by the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
		The Moldovan delegation asked the Russian JCC co-chairman to inform the Russian Defense Ministry of the inadmissibility of using the Russian contingent in the peacekeeping mission in Moldova's eastern districts.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=35902 (7798 words)

	Moldovan Information Center - moldovan
		Moldovan (Latin alphabet: limba moldovenească, Cyrillic alphabet: лимба молдовеняскэ), an Eastern Romance language, is the official language of Moldova and one of the official languages of the de-facto independent state of Transnistria.
		As gary moldovan a result of all this back and forth motion, along with ethnic Romanian deportations and the encouraged migration of citizens from the rest of USSR, Bessarabia had large communities of Russian speakers by the mid-20th century, among the ethnic Romanian natives.
		In 1989, Moldovan was declared the official language of Moldova, and the pre-1992 Romanian version of the Latin alphabet was restored as the official script.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_M_-_O/Moldovan.html (1700 words)

	BBC Education - Languages
		Moldovan corresponds to the Romanian language spoken in what was the Moldovan Socialist Republic.
		Moldovan is spoken by the 4.4 million population of the Republic of Moldova.
		Moldovan is spoken in the Republic of Moldova and in Romania.
	www.bbc.co.uk /education/languages/european_languages/languages/moldovan.shtml (89 words)

	Moldovan language FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Moldovan may be written in either the Latin alphabet (currently official in the) or Cyrillic alphabet (official in the of and formerly in the until 1989).
		The history of the Moldovan (Romanian) language in Moldova is closely tied to the region's political status, with long periods of occupation by and the influencing the language's name and.
		In 2002, the Moldovan Minister of Justice,, said that Romanian and Moldovan are the same language and that the Constitution of Moldova should be amended, not necessarily by changing the word ''Moldovan'' into ''Romanian'', but by adding that "Romanian and Moldovan are the same language".
	www.webguidelive.com /en/Moldovan_language (914 words)

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		Moldovan reintegration minister Vasile Sova said earlier in the day that his country was suspending until August 1 the participation in the five-sided peace settlement talks that also involve Russia, Ukraine, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
		On the linguistic side, the prerequisite for the current tensions lies in the fact that the native speakers of Romanian living in Moldova used the Cyrillic alphabet in writing, when their country [then called the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic] was a part of the Soviet Union.
		Moldovan authorities decided to revert to the Romanian system of writing in the early 1990's after the disintegration of the USSR.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art4245.txt (487 words)

	Moldova - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		In 1938 the Soviet government mandated that the Cyrillic alphabet (the script of the Russian language) be used for Moldovan instead of the Latin (or Roman) alphabet, in part to bolster its claim that the Moldovan and Romanian languages were separate.
		In 1989 Moldovan officials passed a law that made Romanian the official language and reintroduced the Latin alphabet.
		In the constitution adopted in 1994 the language was officially renamed Moldovan.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761566942___4/Moldova.html (908 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Moldovan language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Moldovan language ("Limba moldovenească," ISO 639 codes: mol, mo; Ethnologue code: none), the official language of Moldova, is in linguistic terms actually a regional vernacular of the Romanian language.
		Until 1940, when Moldova was a part of Romania, there was no language called Moldovan: the language spoken in this region was Romanian, but after the USSR annexed this territory, the language was renamed in the attempt to sever all ties with Romania and to justify the annexation.
		(See: Moldovan alphabet) Also, during Soviet rule, Romanian speakers were encouraged to switch to the Russian language, this being a prerequisite for higher education, social status and political power.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Moldovan (415 words)

	The NDSU Libraries: Germans From Russia
		The Moldovan dialect of this area was adopted as the official language; and the Cyrillic alphabet was introduced in order to isolate even more this artificial language from bourgeois Romania.
		In 1930, a Moldovan grammar was published; and the Russian influence on the language was strengthened.
		The results were numerous casualties and in the spring 1992: The situation in Transnistr escalated to such a degree that it resulted in bloody confrontations between the Moldovan army and paramilitary units of the Russians, with the Russian 14th army stationed in Transnistr participating.
	www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu /grhc/media/newspapers/news/old_news/salzer.html (1582 words)

	The balkanisation of the wiki - Flack Attack II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		A significant number of experts consider standard Moldovan to be virtually identical to Romanian, an Eastern Romance language, save for some minor orthographic differences, and that its status as a separate language is a political rather than linguistic one.
		The matter of whether or not Moldovan is a separate language is a hotly-contested political issue in the Republic of Moldova." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_language)
		Moldovan in Moldova has been written in the latin alphabet since independence from the Soviet Union.
	www.flackattack.org /faw/index.php?title=The_balkanisation_of_the_wiki (252 words)

	Moldova - LANGUAGE, RELIGION, AND CULTURE
		The Moldovan dialect of Romanian, spoken by the majority of the people of Bessarabia, was viewed by both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as an impediment to controlling the local populace.
		Although both Romanian written in the Cyrillic alphabet (that is, "Moldavian") and Russian were the official languages of the Moldavian SSR, only 62 percent of the total population claimed Romanian as their native language in 1979.
		The new Moldovan constitution, adopted August 27, 1994, states that Moldovan, written in the Latin script, is designated as the official language, but provisions were made for Russian and other languages to be used in areas of minority concentrations.
	countrystudies.us /moldova/16.htm (568 words)

	Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		September 1990: Moldovan Supreme Soviet declares its sovereignty and nullifies the transfer of Moldavia from Romania to the USSR by the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
		June 1994: The Moldovan parliament votes to delay the implementation of the language testing of Moldovan government employees from the 1989 Language Law until 1997.
		3 January 1996: The Moldovan delegation at the joint control commission (JCC), a group of Moldovan, Russian and Dnestr peacekeepers, said that it considered it unacceptable to transfer peacekeepers' status from the current Russian peacekeeping unit to subdivisions of the Dnestr-deployed Russian contingent.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/molslavschro.htm (8028 words)

	Help.com - russification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The new alphabet in the 1920s for these languages was based on Latin alphabet, usually inspired by the Turkish alphabet.
		The deportation of Moldovans and Romanians were accompanied by the immigration of Slavic populations, particularly Russians and Ukrainians.
		The Moldovan language introduced then by the Soviet authorities in Moldavian SSR was actually Romanian language but written with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet derived from the Russian alphabet.
	help.com /wiki/Russification (1749 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Moldova schools resist threats
		A few metres away they are watched over by a Moldovan policeman and a group of parents who are guarding the school.
		Moldovan, which is virtually identical to Romanian, is the official language of the country.
		Officials in Trans-dniester say the Moldovan schools had been operating illegally as they were not registered with the authorities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3631436.stm (506 words)

	Moldovan language, alphabet and pronunciation
		As far as linguists are concerned, Moldovan and Romanian are the same, or are closely-related, mutually intelligible dialects of the same language.
		Until 1989 Moldovan was written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
		After that the Romanian version of the Latin alphabet was adopted in Moldova, though some orthographic changes adopted in Romanian are not generally used in Moldova.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/moldovan.htm (240 words)

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		In Transnistria where Russian cultural group is in majority it is continuously imposing the Russian alphabet on Moldovans in spite of their numerous claims, and prohibits any manifestation or Romanianness.
		Moldovan ethnicity as a modern political project was proposed to legitimize a Moldovan state, however it contradicts the civic essence of nowadays Moldova, and is not as relevant as before.
		Moldovan legislators in fact granted all minorities the right to use their languages and granted the Russian language the a status of “language of interethnic communication”, provisions that are by far more “generous” than in the Baltic states or even Ukraine.
	www.moldova.org /download/eng/235 (5065 words)

	Romanian
		Romanian is the official language of Romania and Moldova where it is called Moldovan for political reasons.
		Prior to that it was written in the Cyrillic alphabet introduced through religious texts.
		Moldovan uses the Cyrillic alphabet because of its continued close affiliation with Russia.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/january/Romanian.html (592 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		However, Dniester region leader Igor Smirnov demanded that the administration of the Moldovan schools register in accordance with the laws of the unrecognised republic.
		At the end of last week, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry urged international mediators - Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE - to use their influence to prevent the closure of the schools in the Dniester region.
		The head of the OSCE mission, William Hill, said the closure of Moldovan schools in the Dniester region complicated the talks on the Dniester settlement.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art4253.txt (645 words)

	Republic_of_moldova info here at en.businessfeeder.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Soviet official policy also stated that Romanian and Moldovan were two different languages and Moldovan was written in Cyrillic alphabet, as opposed to Romanian, which was written in Latin alphabet.
		The official language is Moldovan; this is by all accounts a form of Daco-Romanian, and is essentially the same as Romanian.
		Nonetheless, Moldovans are generally aware when they are using a word of Slavic origin not found in common Romanian, and are capable of choosing whether or not to use these words in a particular context.
	en.businessfeeder.info /telephone-long-distance/Republic_of_Moldova (3556 words)

	Moldova Azi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		On Thursday night, the minister appeared on the local state-controlled television and explained why the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic [PMR] clings to the Moldovan language based on the Cyrillic script.
		The Moldovan language that uses the Latin alphabet is but a pseudo-language".
		In her conviction, the Transnistrian republic cultivates a really genuine Moldovan language, "and we will soon issue a textbook on the literature of Transnistria - a book that will add to the support and development of the real Moldovan language that has been using the Cyrillic alphabet for centuries".
	www.azi.md /print/30434/En (244 words)

	seeurope.net :: View Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The new school year is fraught with tension in Moldova's breakaway Trans-dniester region, where the language used in lessons has become a burning political issue.
		Diana and her friends slowly recite the Moldovan alphabet.
		It's very important for both children and their parents that they should be able to study their own language," she says.
	www.seeurope.net /en/Story.php?StoryID=53069&LangID=1 (479 words)

	Cyrillic alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The plan of the alphabet is derived from the Glagolitic alphabet, a 9th century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
		But the shapes of the glyphs in the Cyrillic alphabet are mainly Greek letters, although some letters retain their Glagolitic forms.
		Cyril's contributions to the Glagolitic alphabet and hence to the Cyrillic alphabet are still recognised, as the latter is named after him.
	usapedia.com /c/cyrillic-alphabet.html (622 words)

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		The underlying reason of Soviet ideologistsâ intensive Russification of the language spoken in Moldova was to justify the annexation, in 1940, of this formerly Romanian territory.
		The new terminology to describe Moldovansâ ânew socialist and material existenceâ in the Soviet Union was utterly Russian.
		As a result, the reintroduction of references to the âMoldovan languageâ in official papers was a relief for the âstuttering masses.â By referring to a âMoldovan language,â the state effectively declared that the phenomenon of âlanguage skill lossâ was a legitimate form of linguistic behavior.
	courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Centeur/Moldova/040903languag.txt (968 words)

	History and development of the Cyrillic alphabet
		The Cyrillic alphabet is named after St. Cyril, a missionary from Byzantium.
		The Cyrillic alphabet achieved its current form in 1708 during the reign of Peter the Great.
		Four letters were eliminated from the alphabet in a 1917/18 reform.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/cyrillic.htm (254 words)

	No. 456 - Situation of Romanian pupils in the occupied Moldovan territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Being concerned that in the occupied Moldovan territories the Latin alphabet, part of the identity of the majority Moldovan population, has been banned and replaced by the Russian alphabet, which is being imposed in schools on more than 50 000 Moldovan pupils of Romanian origin;
		Whether the Committee of Ministers is monitoring the specific situation of pupils of Romanian origin in Moldovan territories under Russian military occupation;
		What measures the Committee of Ministers plans to take to ensure that the Russian authorities cease to impede the normal functioning of Romanian language schools in the Moldovan territories controlled by Moscow.
	assembly.coe.int /Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc04/EDOC10309.htm (290 words)

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