The Moldovan parliament has voted through a law to replace the Moldovan language with the Romanian language in official legislation in what has been regarded as a symbolic stand against Russia as tensions grow in the region.
The law, which will see all official legislation written in Romanian, rather than Moldovan, as well as replacing the phrases "official language", "state language" and "mother tongue" with “Romanian”, is set to be implemented in 30 days. The Moldovan language is very similar to Romanian, however, has historically been written using Cyrillic script, like Russian, rather than Latin letters, like Romanian.
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