Moldovan: The Language That Doesn't Exist Anymore! 

**READ BEFORE YOU COMMENT:** Yes, I know that Moldovan never truly existed as a language. If you watch past the first minute of the video, you'll discover that the video dissects *why* Moldovan was ever classified as its own language in the first place. Have a great day! 🙃

Back in the '90 we had a joke in Romania: what foreign language can speak any romanian? Moldovan language.

Not anymore! *It never existed. It was always the Romanian language.* 0:04

Moldavian or Moldovan is not a language, it's a Romanian dialect which only has several regional words or synonims and a slightly different accent. This "language" is only a concept created by the Soviet Union.

I'm from Brazil, I have a profound curiosity about Romania, probably because it's the only country in Eastern Europe with a romance language, it's exotic and beautiful to my ears. During 20 years, I was an avid fan of many romanian singers, especially regarding the rap scene. Unfortunately, the language is quite distinctive from other romance languages such as portuguese, spanish and italian. But I can notice many words that are similar or even identical to many words we have in Portuguese.

avînd existed in Romania too until, in early nineties, it was decided that î should be replaced with â inside the word and keep î as it is in the beginning and end of the word. This is because all words were using î excepting român and its derivates, so they generalized to make sure that â becomes a common used letter.

If you search for "Moldovan" in the THEMA book categorisation tool, it returns the language code for "Romanian".

"Moldovan: The Language That Doesn't Exist Anymore!" ---- It has never existed! The so-called "Moldovan language" is Romanian language spoken in the region of Moldova!

I have a Romanian (language) teacher from Moldova, and that’s never caused me any problems

Could this be part of a long-term project to eventually reunify Moldova with Romania? 🤔

As a portuguese I never heard anything about Moldovan, Just Romanian with different accent. Like Galician in Spain is portuguese but with a Spanish accent!

Țara Românească a Moldovei Țara Românească a Munteniei Atât de simplu de înțeles

It's like saying that Austrians speak Austrian, and not German.

Eu sunt moldovean și vorbesc limba română !!! 💙💛❤

Moldovan here. This youtuber is only repeating the Moscow's imperialist propaganda. There is no such language "Moldovan" as distinct from "Romanian". Our ancestors named our language both Romanian and Moldovan, but mainly "Romanian". Moldova itself was established by Romanians, which continued to name themselves "Romanians" (or Wallachians, in other languages), while also using the name "Moldovans" when aiming to differentiate from Romanians from other Romanian regions. Even if other Romanian regions would not exist ... we would still name ourselves "Romanians" and our language also "Romanian". Moldova created the modern state of Romania, after freely uniting with Wallachia in 1859. The present day "Republic of Moldova" is not Moldova. Moldova is in Romania. The "Republic" is only a former part of Moldova which was occupied by the Russians 1812-1917 and by Soviets 1944-1991.

I once heard somewhere that the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language has a nation state. There are bigger difference between Mexican Spanish and Spanish spoken in Spain than there seems to be between Romanian and Moldovan yet both varieties are known simply as Spanish. I like how you mentioned Afrikaans and Dutch as well as three of the Scandinavian languages which are almost the same. Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian only became widely popular to be refered to separate after the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

I speak many languages: austrian, bavarian, east-german, american, canadian, australian, brazilian, mexican, argentinian and of course MOLDOVAN.

honestly, my romanian friend always told me that moldovan was a political term and not a linguistic one. Good video!

As speaker of the Dutch language, I would neither claim Dutch and Afrikaans to be dialects of one another, nor would I say that they were two distinct languages. There may be a high lexical similarity when regarding the two, but they have a very different grammar. Let’s say Brabo-Hollandish, Limburgish, Frisian, Zealandic, Afrikaans and Low German are to be considered regional languages under one Netherlandish umbrella. Of course this is politically sensitive matter.

I think Moldovan (and Romanian) have 7 vowels, not 5

The first translation of Bible in 1688 was the fruit of activity of people from principalty of Moldavia, Wallachia but also from Transylvania, were the New Testament was published some decades far.

Nu a exista niciodată limba moldovenească, a fost o invenție a rușilor, moldovenească este doar un accent al limbi române

14 century political treaties signed between the Voevodate of Moldova and various political powers like Poland or Venice were signed specifically in the Wallachian language/Romanian. Today when Romanian is spoken or written by bilingual persons using the topic and expressions from Russian you can call it Romanian-Moldova as different from Romanian-Romania, or English-UK versus English-Australia.

Nice !

I missed the dance! NOW you're finally back.

It's not about the language, it's about the name of the language and only about a eastern part (former Bessarabia) of ancient Moldova (Moldavia)

The moldovan language was invented by Russia 100 years ago to separate the romanians from the Republic of Moldova from the ones from Romania. Russia being of course interested to annex and russify the majority romanian Republic of Moldova, which it did between 1940/44 and 1991.

I think that the Romanian language was originally written with Cyrillic letters.

moldova is a historic region and in romania, we speak sama language,,,,, sure in rep of moldavia , in time of soviets , language chage,, not to much but is

The demise of the "moldovan" language was due to the disappearance of the cause of its creation: politically created artificial division between the Moldovan people and the Romanians. Even during the medieval Moldova Principality, the language was called Romanian. It is the same to German, spoken in many different small states. So Moldovan language never existed. As to Transnistria, they speak Russian officially there, so their comments on others' language is also politic.

It never existed.. it is called the ROMANIAN language.

Moldova, Transniestria, Romania = the Gotho-Roman linguistic heritage from 103 ce- 395 ce/ 568 ce. “Romania tongue”/“Eastern Roman Vernacular” established between Emperor Caracalla/Aurelian and Diocletian (232 - 279 ce). “Romanian” permanently settled established its linguistic legacy in the East-Danubian lands between Diocletian and Justinian (279 - 547 ce). “Aromanian Vlach” is the equivalent western Dalmatian/Alpine/West Balkan language remnant of “West-Balkan Romano-Latin.” “Romanian” showed up as an East-Balkan/Danubian written language circa 1150 ce in the legal decrees of Moldavian voivods.

Reminds me of Dutch VS flemish in my country

In the historic documents prior to 20th century, whenever the phrase "Moldovan language" is used, if one actually understands the language and the text, one immediately knows that what is meant is "the language of Moldovans", not a linguistic claim that the language was somehow different from Romanian. Moldovans were, of course, the people from (the subjects of) the Principality of Moldova (Moldavia in Medieval Latin).

I dont even care if moldovan is gone, i still hear people speak it

My Friend, only the Soviet imperialism supported this idea, of a "so-called" Moldavian language. At the same time, their Serbian friends, also support the idea of a Vlahian/Valahian language as a distinct and not Romanian language, for the Romanians living south Danube, in Serbia. So, the Russians and their Serbian friends say that Valahian and Moldavian languages and peoples are something else than the Romanian language and peoples, but what a SURPRISE!!, Romania itself was created by the unification of Valahia (Wallachia) and Moldavia (half of it in Romania, the other almost half as Republic of Moldavia, plus parts in Ukraine)!!! Very profound and logic, this Ruso-Serbian approach! It's like saying that Moravians and Bohemians are not Czechs and they speak Moravian and Bohemian languages! For instance, the Bavarians and Franconians speak pretty different dialects, but nobody says that they are not Germans! Instead, we all speak the same Romanian language WITH NO DIALECTS! and others come to teach us that these are different languages! Yeah, that is the measure of how stupid it is this discussion!

This video is cleary made for triggering people. Historical fact - the "moldovan language" was a historical name of what we call today the "romanian language." It's name came from the former principality of Moldova, that existed untill 1859. At that time, Wallachia and Moldova united and formed a new country, Romania. 2. Could it be that two actual languages with 100% intelligibility are actually the same language but named differently? It sure the vast majority of all the writers, savants, and linguists from Moldova and Romania consider this. 3. Moldovan language believers are basically the antivaxxers of the linguistic community.

Current Republic of Moldova lies partially on Eastern territories of Principality of Moldova occupied by the Russian Empire in 1812. The Principality of Moldova continued to exist in the Western part, where the river Moldova is and all the old capitals of the Principality are, and where the majority of Moldovans lived. In 1859, Moldovan and Wallachian Principalities united by electing the same man as Prince, a Moldovan called Alexandru Ioan Cuza, founding the Romanian nation state. Romanian language doesn't have dialects, but regional variations distinguished by accent and few regionalisms. This may seem weird, but there's a simple explanation how this happened: for the vast majority of their history, up until the modern era, a very large number of Romanian people were transhumance pastoralists. Year, after year, Romanians from Transylvania, Moldova and Wallachia were mingling in the warmer months on the alpine pastures of the Carpathians. It's also why there's a confusion between Moldovan and Romanian in polls since for less educated people it looks as if they're asked if they speak with Romanian "standard" accent or Moldovan one. Moldovan nation and language were created to justify the invasion and occupation of Eastern Moldova... sorry the liberation of Moldova and the oppressed Moldovan people from the clutches of Romanian imperialism. By a miracle of Russian science the Moldovan people lived only in some (not all) territories of Eastern Moldova and the vast majority of Moldovans were declared not real Moldovans but just Romanians, including those living in a new batch of Moldovan territories extracted as payment from Romania for the suffering inflicted on the noble and freedom loving Moldovan people that were totally not Romanians. While the "Moldovan" and Romanian languages are identical, the initial version of "Moldovan" invented in 1920s in the New and Improved Russian Empire aka the Soviet Union was quite different: it was based on a Romanian-Russian pidgin spoken by minority Romanian communities in Transnistria, outside of Moldova proper, using a brand new alphabet based on Russian and stuffed to the brim with meaningless Russian neologisms. It was completely unintelligible for everyone, especially for those supposed to be Moldovan nationals, so then the Moldovan language became Romanian language with Russian alphabet and neologisms, but even that didn't stick. Finally, around the 70s, Russians had to content themselves with a "Moldovan" language that was just Romanian written with Russian alphabet and that too died as soon as Soviet Republic of Moldova became independent. Now the Russians are fighting and losing the battle to just force that Romanian language be called Moldovan in random region they decided it's the actual and real Moldova.

Well, the idea is that the Moldovan language never existed. It was just a label used by the Soviet authorities in order to create an artificial difference between the Romanian-speaking populations on the two banks of the Prut river.

Seems like your dog is averse to noun case inflectional systems

It exists and always will exist,but because of the people that can do and say anything it doesn't. People need more knowledge

"Moldovan" is a language that did not exist from the beginning ("doesn't exist anymore" makes no sense) ;) .... There is not AMERICAN LANGUAGE or AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE, there is ENGLISH language ... Ther is not AUSTRIAN LANGUAGE, there is GERMAN LANGUAGE etc ... if you like to call English Language "AMERICAN LANGUAGE" it's your choice but remain ENGLISH LANGUAGEA no matter how you call it ;) ... the same is with Romanian Language, you can call it "MOLDOVAN LANGUAGE" if you like .... but is ROMANIAN LANGUAGE from the beginning ;)

Moldovan language never existet! It is a dialect and that dialect is spoken until today in westen Moldova and eastern Moldova (Republic of Moldova). We - except the minorities in our countries - the same ethnic group, descendants of the romans and romanized dacians... Unfortunately our country and the Moldovan region was divided seperate times by the russians. They invented the lie of two languages to seperate us, but the common blood and the truth is stronger than every lie! But if you take a closer look in history you will recognize, that we are the same population with one and the same language! The ancestors from todays romanians in Moldova came from Valahia, better known as Țara Românească - Romanian country! That's why Moldova wants to reunite with Romania - as usually!🇲🇩🤝🇷🇴

Is there an Australian language? is there american language, NO THERE ARE NOT... there is Austrian language? NO, IT IS NOT ... so with "MOLDOVAn LANGUAGE", there is no such language ;)

It never existed, its always been a romanian dialect that was not only present in the current country of moldova but also in Romania. Just like North Macedonian being a bulgarian dialect

It exists in PMR. I speak it (don’t mind comments) анияско пужани?

I stopped at min 0:55 when you said "Moldovan was an Indo-European language".... brother, MOLDOVAN language or MOLDAVIAN langauge did not exist from the beginning... you are in a totally wrong situation... the video is wrong

Very nice video. Your positive attitude is very pleasant to the viewers, too. :) Unfortunately, the history of "Moldovan language" wasn't at all rosy and light. In 1940s people were murdered for opposing Soviet occupation; one of the key tools of occupation was renaming the language from Romanian to "Moldovan", and trying to forcibly modify it. It was a brain child of Stalin's nationalities policy. From 1924 to 1940 a groups of 19 or 20 Soviet linguists was given the task of creating the new "Moldovan language", as "a language of the proletariat" as opposed to literary Romanian, which the Soviets deemed "a bourjois language". Yes, Soviet leaders, who did not speak a word in the language, took upon themselves to modify the language of another people. (Probably should ring a similarity bell with Putin's motivation for invading Ukraine in 2022.) To this end, 19th century Romanian loanwords from French, Italian, and other languages, describing concepts or objects that did not exist prior to 1800s, were deemed "bourjois", and had to be replaced with ... Russian loanwords. Moreover, the native words were to be pronounced and written in the most pidgin and uneducated way possible. This was a time, when Soviet ideology encouraged being illiterate or having little education as something to be proud of, as showing one's "healthy social, working class heritage". Educated people were deemed a social enemy class, and were expected to be eradicated via deportations and Gulag to make way for a new Soviet man that would be created. The new Russified pidgin was imposed as the "Moldovan language" on people overnight, in 1940. There was one problem, though. The population could hardly understand the new pidgin. Nonetheless, is was carried on in documents and official texts till Stalin's death in 1953, when the Soviet authorities, again overnight, re-introduced literary Romanian, albeit written with the Russian script till 1989. Here is an example of the pidgin that Soviets used in documents in 1940-1953. Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerul Afacerilor Interne) became Министерюл Трегилор дин Нэунтру, which in English would be ”Ministry of Stuff from Inside”. The language had to be simple, "working class", without "bourjois" words such as "affair" or "interior". The worst part was not that the language was mutilated, but the fact that many people were killed by the Soviets for not conforming themselves to their demands. As an ironic twist of fate, from 1932 to 1938 Soviet Union saw an opportunity to promote its ideology by temporarily improving relationships with Romania. Thus, in 1932, the linguistic work on creating the "Moldovan language" (in what is today the Transnistrian region of Moldova) was ceased, and Romanian language was used instead. When this policy was reversed in 1938, scapegoats had to be identified. Thus the linguists that created "Moldovan" were purged for acquiescing in 1932 to switch to Romanian, and most of them were executed.

If Standard American English and RP English do not have 100% lexical similarity, how can Romanian and Moldovan have 100% lexical similarity. Moldovan language might be canceled on paper but it will continue to exist on the ground since EU does not have enough financing to cancel it on the ground as well. Moldovans and Romanians do not share common history, economical base and cultural aspects. The USA and Canada are different the same way.

It never existed! It was just Soviet propaganda meant to keep conquered romanian land in Soviet Union.

It's not the first video of this kind (language B is actually a variationof language B) I'm watching. It's sad to see the difference between the linguists of the early 1990s and those of the 2020s. When I entered the Linguistic University in 1993 I bought a book that described variations in communications of animals and proved there were territorial differences

Where I can find Moldovan English dictionary? Oh sorry it doesnt exists. It is imagination

Latin is not the mother language of Romanian

Moldovean language is not existed is only dialect!

Lmao you are bullshiting so much

Better say Republic of Moldova, because Moldova propper is part of Romania.

This allegation is totally wrong. The correct sentence is : "Moldovan language DID NEVER exist" 🙂🙂 It's time to STOP this BS for good !!

Moldovan never existed amigo. It was a lie Putler and his predecessors told romanian people in moldova to make them think they're different, so they can be stolen easier

You are lucky that the Russians have not claimed that your language is a dialect of Russian language.

Well why then they say in west that Ukrainian is a Language? Every linguist will tell you that Ukrainian has grammar identical to Russian. Therefore it is not a Language but a Russian dialect. The same situation is with Moldovan, but they say in the west that Moldovan is a Language... Or let's say it other way: Moldovan is a Romanian dialect, Ukrainian is a Russian dialect. Moldova goes to Romania, Ukraine goes to Russia.

b****, there was no 'moldovan' language until the russian menace reached Romanian Principalities borders, aka the Kingdom of Moldova. Same Romanian language is spoken there with the same ethno geographic differences between nowadays regions of Romania: Transylvania, Moldova and Walachia.

🥲 🥲🥲It is very sad! Many nations have very similar languages! And these peoples are fighting for their identity. But the Moldovans simply gave up themselves in favor of the country that wants to absorb them 🤯