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| 1qaz2wsx Diglot Groupie Greece Joined 5374 days ago 98 posts - 124 votes  Speaks: Greek*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Albanian | Message 1 of 25 06 April 2010 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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What are the differences between standard Romanian and Moldovan?
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| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5349 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 2 of 25 06 April 2010 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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i found some information on it:
"Moldovan (also Moldavian; Romanian: limba moldovenească), written in the Latin script, is one of the names of the official language of the Republic of Moldova. The language spoken in Moldova is identical to Romanian, sharing the same literary standard, but for political reasons both names Moldovan and Romanian are used inside the country." "There are, however, regional differences in the colloquial spoken language. The Moldovan dialect/variety is common in the Republic of Moldova, as well as in Chernivtsi Oblast and Budjak region of Ukraine, and in eight counties of Romania, territories that once made up the medieval Principality of Moldavia. The difference between the language spoken in Chişinău and Iaşi and the language spoken for example in Bucharest could be roughly compared to that between Standard British and Scottish or American English. Others have argued that these differences might be found within any linguistic territory." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 1qaz2wsx Diglot Groupie Greece Joined 5374 days ago 98 posts - 124 votes Speaks: Greek*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Albanian | Message 3 of 25 06 April 2010 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes,this information is from wikipedia and it is very general.I need more specific information.Do you know any words in Moldovan that are not used in Romanian and vice versa?What are the differences in phonology? Edited by 1qaz2wsx on 06 April 2010 at 9:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 4 of 25 06 April 2010 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
See here for some comments comparing the two. forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1211395 www.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=22879 www.pcgn.org.uk/Moldovan.pdf 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 25 06 April 2010 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have not specifically studied Moldovan, but I visited both Romania and Moldova in 2006 on the same travel and spoke to local people in both places. My impression was that the differences in pronunciation were quite limited - and certainly not enough to bother me. I did notice that for instance some shop names were different, but that's just what you can expect from a language spoken in two countries. So if you have learnt Dacoromanian as it is spoken in Romania you won't have any problems in Moldova.
On the other hand Aromanian is so different that you will have trouble understanding it right away. The comparison betwen Standard English and hardcore Scots is more on its place here. I suppose this also applies to Megleno- and Istroromanian. Edited by Iversen on 06 April 2010 at 10:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mirab3lla Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom lang-8.com/220477Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5444 days ago 161 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Romanian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Spanish, FrenchB1, Mandarin | Message 6 of 25 23 April 2010 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am a native speaker of Romanian and I can say that the differences between Romanian (Standard) and Moldovan or Moldavian (not a different language,but a dialect of Romanian), are hardly noticeable.
However, a big difference is observed in the accent, moldovans having a more pronounced slavic accent. A Romanian can easily understand a Moldavian (although they use to speak very, very fast) and with a little (more) effort also Aromanian, which I think is more close to the Moldavian dialect than to the Standard Romanian. In the region of Romania where I live (Ardeal), we also have a slightly different accent that the Romanians from Bucharest, for example. I find it funny when I go on holiday to different parts of the country and people in shops are asking me "where do you come from? you have such a funny accent!" 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5340 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 7 of 25 23 April 2010 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I believe it is the relation of American and Canadian English. Almost identical.
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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5404 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 8 of 25 24 April 2010 at 12:40am | IP Logged | ||
Isn't Romanian a dialect of Moldavian? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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