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unusual facts about Moldovan language


Samuil Lehtţir

In 1926, he moved to the USSR, where he was involved in literary activities in the Moldovan language.


Moldovan–Romanian dictionary

The Moldovan–Romanian dictionary (Dicţionar Moldovenesc-Românesc) is a dictionary compiled by Vasile Stati and published in Chişinău, Moldova in 2003 that contains 19,000 Moldovan words that are explained in Romanian.

Union of Bessarabia with Romania

The official Soviet policy (1940–1941, 1944–1989) also stated that Romanian and Moldovan were two different languages and, to emphasize the distinction, Moldovan was written using a special Cyrillic alphabet (the Moldovan alphabet) derived from the Russian alphabet – unlike Romanian, written with its own version of the Latin alphabet.


see also

Leonid Corneanu

Corneanu translated into the Moldovan language books by Taras Shevchenko, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Bezymensky, Demyan Bedny, as well as Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time.