From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Aug 14 2004 - 13:47:05 CDT
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin <antonio at tuvalkin dot web dot pt> wrote:
> As for your question: both governments (and "their" people), while
> keeping their armies and recyprocal independence (for now), agree
> that it is the same language, even if they may some day disagree about
> its name. (E.g., the 19th cent. saw a number of wars in South America
> -- common language did not avert hostility nor did create unity among
> neighbours.)
Seeing that Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian have been given their own
separate ISO 639 codes, for almost purely political reasons (they are
dialects), I doubt it's necessary to worry about erasing the political
distinction between Romanian and Moldavian.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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