Talk:Republic of Moldova/Arguments Romanian

Law
This law still aplies:

Law regarding the usage of languages spoken on the territory of the Republic of Moldova): "Moldavian RSS supports the desire of the Moldovans that live across the borders of the Republic, and considering the really existing linguistical Moldo-Romanian identity - of the Romanians that live on the territory of the USSR, of doing their studies and satisfying their cultural needs in their maternal language."

Other official sources
and so on...
 * Ministry of Education of Moldova
 * Academy of Sciences of Moldova
 * Consiliul Coordonator al Audiovizualului
 * Ministry of Justice
 * Minitry of Foreign Affairs
 * Minitry of Health
 * Ministry of Transports

Other encyclopedias or factbooks

 * Encarta
 * CIA Factbook
 * Columbia Encyclopedia
 * US State Department

Census
In the 2004 census out of the 3,383,332 population of Moldova, 16.5% (558,508) chose Romanian as their mother tongue, whereas 60% chose Moldovan. But this procent varies from the cities to the country side. In the cities, 40% of the Romanian/Moldovan speakers chose Romanian as their mother tongue, whereas in the country side each 7th Romanian/Moldovan speaker chose Romanian as his mother tongue; that is even though only 2% of the population of Moldova declared itself of Romanian ethnicity.

It is also important to note, that the group of international observers from the Council of Europe, that supervised the census, underlined that 7 of the 10 observer teams noted an important number of cases when peope were advised to declare themselves Moldovans or Moldovan speakers (more info here).

For detalied information about the relation Moldovan-Romanian in the 2004 census see the table at ro:Limba_moldovenească or National Bureau of Statistics of Moldova.

--Danutz