Vasile Stati (born 1939) is a

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and

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Biography

He studied

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and

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

at the

Moldovan language Moldovan (Romanian alphabet, Latin alphabet: ''limba moldovenească''; Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: лимба молдовеняскэ), also known historically as Moldavian, is one of the two local names of the Romanian language in Moldova. " ...

Department of the

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. Stati wrote the

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s ''Moldovenii de la est de Nistru'' ("The Moldavians to the east of the

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") and ''Istoria Moldovei'' ("History of Moldova"). He has written about the development of the vernacular Moldavian language and the

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ic influences over the Moldavian culture. In the 1980s, he worked at the Institute of Linguistics and Literature of the

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, and from 1994 to 2001 he was a member of the

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. 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 the

is distinct from

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. The linguists of the

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declared that Stati's "Moldovan" words are also Romanian words, while

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, the head of the Institute of Linguistics of the Republic of Moldova, described the dictionary as being an "absurdity, serving political goals". Engaged in the history of Moldova and the

. He is a supporter of

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- theories about the identity of the

in relation to the

. The author of numerous publications on the history of Moldova. In 2003 he published the first Moldovan-Romanian dictionary, which caused a wave of criticism from the Romanian and Moldovan scientific and political circles, as contrary to the dominant current paradigm of the unity of the two languages.

References

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Eforturi de îmbunătăţire a relaţiilor româno-moldoveneşti
("Efforts to improve Romanian-Moldovan relations"), BBC Romanian, 27 May 2004 *

("A monument to lies and hatred - Vasile Stati's 'Moldovan-Romanian Dictionary'"), ''Contrafort'', July 2003 Moldova State University alumni Linguists from Moldova Moldovan people of Russian descent 20th-century Moldovan historians Living people Anti-Romanian sentiment Moldovan MPs 1994–1998 Moldovan MPs 1998–2001 1939 births {{Europe-linguist-stub

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