Moldovan – BGN/PCGN transliteration system
Moldovan virtual keyboard
The Moldovan virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.
Language overview
The Moldovan language (limba moldovenească, or лимба молдовеняскэ), also known as Moldavian, is actually Romanian language written in Cyrillic alphabet (while Romanian uses the Latin alphabet). As such, it is a Romance language. Moldovan is used in Moldova, and Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, where it has the status of official language. The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet (derived from the Russian alphabet and standardised in the Soviet Union) was used in 1924-1932 and 1938-1989, and remains in use in Transnistria. Only one character is not used in the modern Russian alphabet, the character zhe (ж) with breve: Ӂ ӂ.
Transliteration system: BGN/PCGN
The BGN/BGCN is a virtual committee formed by the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN), which is a United States federal body, and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN), an independent inter-departmental body for the use of the British government. Both are aimed at establishing and maintaining uniform usage of geographic names, and their standards have been agreed upon by both party as a joint adoption.
Other transliteration systems for Moldovan
The other currently supported transliteration systems for Moldovan are: ALA-LC, and ISO 9.
Books
Colloquial Romanian
by Ramona Gönczöl & Dennis Deletant, editors Routledge (2015)
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Complete Romanian
by Dennis Deletant & Yvonne Alexandrescu, editors Teach Yourself (2010)
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Romanian: An Essential Grammar
by Gonczol Davies, editors Routledge (2007)
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Gramática rumana
by Víctor Manuel Martínez Ramirez, editors Lulu.com (2010)
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Parlons roumain : langue et culture
by Gilbert Fabre, editors L’Harmattan (1991)
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Moldovan links
Other supported languages
The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carrier, Cherokee, Chuvash, Georgian, Greek, Ingush, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Serbian, Tamazight, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.