Languages of Moldova
Moldova. 3,877,000. National or official language: Romanian (Moldovan). Literacy rate: 99%. Immigrant languages: Belarusan (20,000), Crimean Tatar (1,860), Eastern Yiddish, Russian (562,000), Standard German (7,000), Tatar, Ukrainian (600,000), Vlax Romani. Information mainly from T. Sebeok 1963. The number of individual languages listed for Moldova is 5. Of those, all are living languages.
| Bulgarian | [bul]
395,000 in Moldova.
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Eastern
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| Gagauz | [gag]
138,000 in Moldova (2000). Population total all countries: 162,200. Also in Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russian Federation (Europe), Ukraine.
Alternate names: Gagauzi.
Dialects: Bulgar Gagauzi, Maritime Gagauzi. Similar to Turkish [tur], but uses Russian Orthodox Christian religious vocabulary in contrast to Islamic vocabulary of Turkish.
Classification: Altaic, Turkic, Southern, Turkish
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| Moldova Sign Language | [vsi]
Classification: Deaf sign language
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| Romani, Balkan | [rmn]
12,000 in Moldova (Johnstone 1993). Moldova; Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine.
Alternate names: Gypsy.
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Balkan
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| Romanian | [ron]
2,660,000 in Moldova (1979 census). Widespead.
Alternate names: Moldavan, Roumanian, Rumanian.
Dialects: Moldavan (Moldovian, Moldovean), Muntenian (Walachian, Muntean), Banat, Bayash, Chrishana, Maramuresh, Oltenia-Lesser Wallachia (Oltean).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Eastern
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