Re: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

From: Marc Wilhelm Küster (kuester@saphor.net)
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 02:30:43 CDT

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    > > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
    > On
    > > Behalf Of Michael Everson
    >
    >
    > > 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.
    >
    > If such a distinction exists and is useful for documentation purposes,
    > that would be a valid distinction for ISO 639 to provide distinct IDs
    > for.
    >

    According to the Wikipedia, German edition, article "Moldawische
    Sprache" the Moldavian academy of sciences published in 2003 a
    dictionary Romanian / Moldavian to stress the fact that these entities
    should be considered to two separate languages.

    Which should settle the question.

    Best regards,

    Marc

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