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Vasile Stati | |
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| Member of the Parliament of Moldova | |
| In office 27 February 1994 –20 March 2001 | |
| Parliamentary group | Democratic Agrarian Party Party of Communists |
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| Born | September 20,1939 Cajba,Moldavian SSR,Soviet Union |
| Profession | Historian,Politician |
Vasile Stati (born 20 September 1939) is a Moldovan politician and historian.
He studied history and philology at the Moldovan language Department of the State University of Chișinău.
He is the author of numerous publications on the history of Moldova and the Moldovan language. Stati wrote the monographs Moldovenii de la est de Nistru ("The Moldavians to the east of the Dniester") and Istoria Moldovei ("History of Moldova"). He has written about the development of the vernacular Moldavian language and the Slavic influences over the Moldavian culture. In the 1980s,he worked at the Institute of Linguistics and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova,and from 1994 to 2001 he was a member of the Parliament of Moldova. Until 2005 he was the secretary of the informational-analytic centre of the Moldovan Parliament.
He is a supporter of Moldovenist theories about the separate identity of the Moldovan language in relation to the Romanian language. In 2003 he published the first Moldovan–Romanian dictionary,which caused a wave of criticism from the Romanian and Moldovan scientific and political circles,as contrary to the dominant current paradigm of the unity of the two languages. It contained a foreword whose purpose was to prove that the Moldovan language is distinct from Romanian. The linguists of the Romanian Academy declared that Stati's "Moldovan" words are also Romanian words,while Ion Bărbuță,the head of the Institute of Linguistics of the Republic of Moldova,described the dictionary as being an "absurdity,serving political goals".
The history of Moldova can be traced to the 1350s,when the Principality of Moldavia,the medieval precursor of modern Moldova and Romania,was founded. The principality was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire from 1538 until the 19th century. In 1812,following one of several Russian–Turkish wars,the eastern half of the principality,Bessarabia,was annexed by the Russian Empire. In 1918,Bessarabia briefly became independent as the Moldavian Democratic Republic and,following the decision of the Parliament,united with Romania. During the Second World War it was occupied by the Soviet Union which reclaimed it from Romania. It joined the Union in 1940 as the Moldavian SSR,until the dissolution of the USSR. In 1991 the country declared independence as the Republic of Moldova.
Romanian is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages,a linguistic group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin which separated from the Western Romance languages in the course of the period from the 5th to the 8th centuries. To distinguish it within the Eastern Romance languages,in comparative linguistics it is called Daco-Romanian as opposed to its closest relatives,Aromanian,Megleno-Romanian,and Istro-Romanian. It is also spoken as a minority language by stable communities in the countries surrounding Romania,and by the large Romanian diaspora. In total,it is spoken by 25 million people as a first language.
Iași,also referred to mostly historically as Jassy,is the third largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia,it has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Romanian social,cultural,academic and artistic life. The city was the capital of the Principality of Moldavia from 1564 to 1859,then of the United Principalities from 1859 to 1862,and the capital of Romania from 1916 to 1918.
Moldovan or Moldavian is one of the two local names for the Romanian language in Moldova. Moldovan was declared the official language of Moldova in Article 13 of the constitution adopted in 1994,while the 1991 Declaration of Independence of Moldova used the name Romanian. In 2003,the Moldovan parliament adopted a law defining Moldovan and Romanian as glottonyms for the same language. In 2013,the Constitutional Court of Moldova interpreted that Article 13 of the constitution is superseded by the Declaration of Independence,thus giving official status to the name Romanian. The breakaway region of Transnistria continues to recognize "Moldavian" as one of its official languages,alongside Russian and Ukrainian. Ukraine also continued until recently to make a distinction between Moldovan and Romanian,with one village declaring its language to be Romanian and another declaring it to be Moldovan,though Ukrainian officials have announced an intention to remove the legal status of Moldovan. On 16 November,the Ministry of Education and Science of the Ukrainian government stated that it has initiated steps to abolish the Moldovan language and to replace it with Romanian. On 13 January 2024,Ukrainian newspaper Dumska reported that the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science had announced all 16 schools in Odesa Oblast teaching "Moldovan" had dropped the term in favor of Romanian. On 16 March 2023,the Moldovan Parliament approved a law on referring to the national language as Romanian in all legislative texts and the constitution. On 22 March,the president of Moldova,Maia Sandu,promulgated the law.
The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic or Moldavian SSR,also known as the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic,Moldovan SSR,Soviet Moldavia,Soviet Moldova,or simply Moldavia or Moldova,was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 1940 from parts of Bessarabia,a region annexed from Romania on 28 June of that year,and parts of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic,an autonomous Soviet republic within the Ukrainian SSR.
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The Dicționar moldovenesc-românesc is a dictionary compiled by Vasile Stati and published in 2003 in Chișinău in Moldova. Being the first and only one of its kind,it contains 19,000 allegedly Moldovan words that are explained in Romanian. Its publishing was followed by a wave of criticism both in the Republic of Moldova and Romania. Strongly challenged by the Moldovan historian community,the "Moldovan-Romanian Dictionary" is considered nonsensical by most linguists in Chișinău,being nothing more than a lexicon of rarely used or obsolete words,archaisms and regionalisms specific to the Moldavian dialect of the Romanian language.
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