[Wikipedia-l] Why MO.wikipedia. - Moldovan, are written in cyrillic ?

Adrenalin adrenalinup at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 22:08:04 UTC 2005


Let's admit what Moldavian people from Transnistria use the cyrillic
script, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria#2004_census

Transnistrian 2004 census:
    * Total population (including Tighina): 555.500
    * Moldovans: 31.9%

That's 177.204 Moldovans ppl, what are forced to use the Cyrillic
alphabet. (forced? see here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria#Political_status). But i'm
still not sure what they all write in Cyrillic.

Now let's see how many Moldovans use the latin script.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova#Ethnic_composition)
According to the 2004 census Moldovans: 76.1% from 3,388,071 ppl.
That's 2,578,322 of Moldovans what use latin script in write. And
since Moldovian language are the only official language in Moldova,
the other 23,9% also must know to speak and write the official
language using official script.

So we see:
In Transnistria, people what are forced to write the Moldovian
language in Cyrillic: 177.204
In Moldova, people what write his language in latin: 2,578,322 (or even more).

So why must 2,578,322 of ppl to see his language in cyrillic on
Wikipedia just because of the Transnistrian 177.204 Moldovans what are
forced by a internationally unrecognised state maintained by Russian
forces(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria) to use cyrillic ?



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