Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that according to historical logic, the Romanian language should be called Moldovan, and not vice versa. wrote about him telegraph channel.
Commenting on the statement of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Moldovan parliament’s law on the renaming of the state language of the republic to Romanian “restores scientific truth”, Zakharova noted that there has been a long-standing consensus on Moldova and Romanian in historical linguistics. Languages. According to the diplomat they are really similar but also different dialects.
According to the representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moldavian was the ancient language of Moldovans mentioned in works of the 17th century, but took shape only in the late 18th century, after the Romanian theologian Samuil Miku-Klein. established a set of rules and grammar.
“If they want to rewrite the name of the language, then let them stick to historical logic and say Romanian Moldavian, and not the other way around,” Zakharova summarized.
It was previously reported that the Moldovan Parliament approved Renaming of the state language from Moldovan to Romanian.
Later, Moldova’s former president, Vladimir Voronin, opposed changing the name of the country’s official language from Moldovan to Romanian.