“It is very important to keep our language and, especially, its name as it was called by our grandparents and great-grandparents, from generation to generation. It is extremely important to create conditions for the Moldovan language (!) to be learned by all the inhabitants of our country,” President Igor Dodon says in a message transmitted on the occasion of Our Language Day, IPN reports.

In the messages posted in the social media, President Dodon says “the Moldovan language”(!) is the common national heritage, regardless of the ethnic origin. Moldova is home to representatives of a number of ethnic groups, while the linguistic diversity is the power and beauty of Moldovan society. “Our goal is to do our best to keep all the languages and traditions on the territory of the Republic of Moldova,” he wrote.

The holiday of the Romanian language started to be celebrated in 1990 under the name of Our Romanian Language Day or the Romanian Language Day. In 1994, the agrarian government decided to change the name into Our Language Day. Igor Dodon, immediately after he was invested as President, replaced the Romanian language (ro) with Moldovan (md) on the website of the Moldovan presidential office. He repeatedly said that “We, the Moldovans, have the Moldovan language and our own history - the history of Moldova”. However, according to the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, the official language of the Republic of Moldova is the Romanian language and the phrase “Moldovan language” that works based on the Latin script stipulated in Article 13, para. (1) of the Constitution can semantically equal “the Romanian language”.