ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol

[John Cowan]

Lang Gérard scripsit:

> How is it possible that this language name, that passed all criteria to
> be recognized inside ISO 639[-1] and ISO 639-2 during 20 or 10 years,
> has now to be deprecated ?

In a word, because political realities have finally caught up to
linguistic ones: the constitution may say "Moldovan language", but the
Moldovan language academy recognizes the facts on the ground, which are
that Moldovan is Romanian.

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