The Romanian Academy requests the authorities of the Republic of Moldova to keep the correct and established notions of “Romanian language” and “history of Romanians” for official use as the only valid notions for denominating the realities covered by them. A statement signed by six academicians says the Romanian Academy learned with concern about the new attempts to introduce for official use the inexistent notion of “Moldovan language” that was earlier supported by Soviet propaganda and was now resumed by particular politically interested circles, IPN reports.
The statement says that “the Prut is not a linguistic or dialectical border and, consequently, the language spoken on one side and on the other side of this river is the same, namely the Romanian language, and the dialects of this language ensure the unity of the language and are intelligible to all the Romanians. Moldovan scholars, from Miron Costin and Dimitrie Cantemir to Mihai Eminescu and Alexandru Philippide, constantly used the notion of Romanian language, not that of “Moldovan language” and the most important theoreticians of the names of Romanian and Romania were Moldovans.”
The Romanian academicians noted it’s true that there is now the internationally recognized stare Republic of Moldova, but the language of the largest part of the population is Romanian and is expressed in the beautiful Moldovan dialect.
The statement was signed by the Bureau of the Presidium of the Romanian Academy that consists of the Academy’s president Ioan-Aurel Pop, vice presidents Bogdan Simionescu, Victor Spinei, Răzvan Theodorescu, Victor Voicu and secretary general Ioan Dumitrache.
