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- Title
The Romanian or the Moldavian Language?: Language as an artificial boundary among the inhabitants of a new state.
- Authors
Rus, Alin
- Abstract
This article briefly discusses the idea of boundary as it appears in the history of anthropology and focuses as a case study on the ex-soviet Republic called Moldavia and its language after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the creation of a new state: the Republic of Moldova. Using the tools and methods of Cultural Anthropology I will show how, in the Republic of Moldova the traces of the artificial boundaries drawn during Soviet times are still visible today. One of these boundaries is the artificial distinction between Moldavian and Romanian language as two separate languages and between Moldavian people and Romanian people as two separate ethnic groups. My main argument in this article is that the very long and convoluted discourse focusing on language politics in a new state, the Republic of Moldova, is a consequence of the artificial boundaries that were imposed in all the aspects of the public life during Soviet time.
- Subjects
MOLDOVA; MOLDOVAN dialect; ROMANIAN language; ETHNOLOGY; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
Caietele Echinox, 2010, Vol 19, p362
- ISSN
1582-960X
- Publication type
Article