- Vasile Stati
Vasile Stati is a
Moldova n politician and linguist.Fact|date=October 2008 He studied history and philology at theMoldovan language Department of theState University of Chişinău .Stati wrote the monographies "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 theAcademy of Sciences of Moldova , and from 1994 to 2000 he was a member of the Moldovan Parliament. Until 2005 he was the secretary of the informational-analytic centre of the Moldovan Parliament.In 2003, he published a
Moldovan-Romanian dictionary with a foreword whose purpose was to prove that theMoldovan language is distinct from Romanian. The linguists of theRomanian Academy declared that Stati's "Moldovan" words are also Romanian words, whileIon Bărbuţă , the head of the Institute of Linguistics of the Republic of Moldova, described the dictionary as being an "absurdity, serving political goals".ee also
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History of the Moldovan language References
* " [http://www.bbc.co.uk/romanian/news/story/2004/05/040527_iliescu_voronin.shtml Eforturi de îmbunătăţire a relaţiilor româno-moldoveneşti] " ("Efforts to improve Romanian-Moldovan relations"), BBC Romanian,
27 may 2004
* " [http://www.contrafort.md/2003/105-106/570.html Un monument al minciunii şi al urii - 'Dicţionarul moldovenesc-românesc' al lui Vasile Stati] ("A monument to lies and hatred - Vasile Stati's 'Moldovan-Romanian Dictionary'", "Contrafort", July 2003
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