The Language of the Moldovans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language of the Moldovans write by Matthew H. Ciscel. This book was released on 2007. The Language of the Moldovans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who are the Moldovans? The Language of the Moldovans explores this question from the perspective of debates about the languages spoken by the people of this ex-Soviet state. Locating language as a central point of both cohesion and conflict in the region's recent history, the peculiarities of the Moldovans are illustrated by a survey of language attitudes, a series of ethnographic interviews, and extensive observations by the author. The result is an image of an emerging nation that is, at once, similar to the experiences of other ex-Soviet states and uniquely complex. Much of that complexity lies in the population's extensive multilingualism and in uncertainty about the Romanian-ness of the official language. This cross-discipline volume is of great interest to advanced students and researchers of linguistics, political science, and Eastern European studies.
The Moldovans
The Moldovans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moldovans write by Charles King. This book was released on 2013-09-01. The Moldovans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing East European borderland, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured.
The Romanian Dialect of Moldova
The Romanian Dialect of Moldova - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Romanian Dialect of Moldova write by Donald Leroy Dyer. This book was released on 1999. The Romanian Dialect of Moldova available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines attempts by Soviet linguists to create an independent literary language called Moldavian, which according to Soviet linguistics and their followers were lexically, phonologically, even grammatically distinct from standard Romanian. The text examines, through a series of contemporary essays, the history of Soviet language policy in Moldova. Specific attention is paid to the actual dialectal features of Moldovian Romanian, its borrowed lexical stock from Russian and the relationship between the Romanian of Moldova and other languages spoken in the region, such as Bulgarian and Gaguaz.
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing the Moldovans at Tennis write by Tony Hawks. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Playing the Moldovans at Tennis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis. And with the loser of the bet agreeing to strip naked on Balham High Road and sing the Moldovan national anthem, this one was just too good to resist. The ensuing unpredictable and often hilarious adventure sees him being taken in by Moldovan gypsies and narrowly avoid kidnap in Transnistria. It sees him smuggle his way on to the Moldovan National Team coach in Coleraine and witness (almost) divine intervention in the Holy Land. In this inspiring and exceptionally funny book, Tony Hawks has done it again, proving against all odds that there is no reason in the world why you can't do something a bit stupid and prove all of your doubters wrong. Or at least that was the idea....
Russia on the Danube
Russia on the Danube - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia on the Danube write by Victor Taki. This book was released on 2021-09-21. Russia on the Danube available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the goals of Russia’s Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube, from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and a springboard for future military operations against Constantinople. Russia on the Danube describes the divergent interests and uneasy cooperation between the Russian officials and the Moldavian and Wallachian nobility in a key period between 1812 and 1834. Victor Taki’s meticulous examination of the plans and memoranda composed by Russian administrators and the Romanian elite underlines the crucial consequences of this encounter. The Moldavian and Wallachian nobility used the Russian-Ottoman rivalry in order to preserve and expand their traditional autonomy. The comprehensive institutional reforms born out of their interaction with the tsar’s officials consolidated territorial statehood on the lower Danube, providing the building blocks of a nation state. The main conclusion of the book is that although Russian policy was driven by self-interest, and despite the Russophobia among a great part of the Romanian intellectuals, this turbulent period significantly contributed to the emergence, several decades later, of modern Romania.
