The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet designed for the Romanian/Moldovan language in the Soviet Union and used from 1938 to 1989 (and still today in Transnistria). Its introduction was decided by the Central Executive Committee of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on May 19, 1938. Its structure is based on the Russian Cyrillic alphabet (excluding three Russian letters and adding another), and does not have a direc...
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The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet designed for the Romanian/Moldovan language in the Soviet Union and used from 1938 to 1989 (and still today in Transnistria). Its introduction was decided by the Central Executive Committee of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on May 19, 1938. Its structure is based on the Russian Cyrillic alphabet (excluding three Russian letters and adding another), and does not have a direct resemblance to the historical Romanian Cyrillic alphabet used from the middle ages until the second half of the 19th century in Romania and until 1932 in the Soviet Union.
"Derived from the Russian alphabet and developed in the Soviet Union since the 1930s, the modern Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is different from the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet used in the Principality of Moldavia and by the other Moldovan/Wallachian language-speakers before 1857" The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet was used during the Stalin era as a way to separate culturally the...
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