A NON-EXISTENT LANGUAGE: THE MOLDAVIAN LANGUAGE

O LIMBĂ INEXISTENTĂ: LIMBA MOLDOVENEASCĂ

Abstract

In 1812, immediately after occupying the territory between Prut and
Nistru by the Czar's armies, in Bassarabia, it began a major process of
denationalization of the natives through education, church, army, colonizations.
The Soviet power used the same methods, inventing a new language and a new
nation in order to justify the claim ober Bassarabia. During the last period of the
Soviet occupation, in 1989, a major movement of national redescent of Romanians
between Prut and Nistru began and it marked the return to the Latin alphabet,
while the "Moldovan' language" was declared a state language. Although the
leaders of the Bassarabian intellectuality pleaded in favour of returning to the use
of the "Romanian language", the political forces in Chisinau, under the „spell” of
Moscow, hesitated to take "the big step".