Limba română versus limba moldovenească în societatea civilă și politică. Dezbateri reflectate în presa din Republica Moldova [Articol]

Abstract

The polemic of Romanian versus Moldavian Language reflected in Civil and Political Society. Debates reflected in written mass-media of the Republic of Moldova. The linguistic problem was one of the main problems which was presented in political programs of the nationalist movements from the post- soviet states. The aim of the programs was gaining official status of national language for their nations. During the last years of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, the struggle got harder because the Russian language speakers, especially their officials, were insisting for the name of Moldavian language. This idea that the Moldovan language is a different language from the Romanian one was promoted during the soviet era. In the soviet era, this problem was discussed by researchers, who did great efforts to prove the existence of a supposed Moldavian language. People were taught in schools and all educational levels that there is only one language spoken in Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and that is Moldavian. In the 80’s of the XX-th century, this linguistic consideration became an important political speech, which became an important political argument. In such a way, it meant a Pro-Russian or Pro-Occidentalism position for the country. By analyzing the information from Moldavian press about the 80’s of XX-th century, historians confirmed that there was a mass which supported the idea of a Moldavian language and another one which thought correctly about their native language-Romanian. If the last category used scientific proofs, like historical and linguistic, the first category used a gross, offensive and intolerant vocabulary. They purposefully faked historical and linguistic sources. Even more, they wanted to create a negative image about Romania and its nation. The affirmation that the researchers from the soviet era used the phrase - Moldavian language, and their evidence about this language is not a real argument. The investigators adjusted their scientific works for a totalitarian regime, therefore one must not use the phrase ‘Moldavian language’ of soviet researchers as a scientific argument. This system of government acted in the base of a principle – divide et impera and wanted to create a Moldavian nation and a Moldavian language. This nation should be different from the Romanian one. Therefore, they wanted to stop separatist movements of Moldova from Russia and territorial disputes with Romania. The analysis of all published materials from that period of time show that ones of the most dedicated protectors of Moldavian language and Moldavian identity were people like ‘internationalist Moldavians’. They were involved into Communist Party or in other Centre-left political parties, into different cultural or scientific associations where the majority of people didn’t know this language. This is why after Parliament approved a historical decision, on the 16th of March, 2023, M. Zakharova, speaker for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation, expressed an authentic care for the Moldavian language.authentic care for the Moldavian language.