Vasile Stati

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Vasile Stati is a Moldovan politician and linguist. He studied history and philology at the Moldovan language Department of the State University of Chişinău.

Stati is one of the most fervent supporters of Moldovanism, a movement of Stalinist origins, currently promoted by the Moldovan authorities. He wrote the monographies Moldovenii de la est de Nistru ("The Moldavians to the east of the Dniester") and Istoria Moldovei ("History of Moldavia"). He has written about the development of the vernacular Moldavian language and the Slavic influences over the Moldavian culture. In the 1980s, he worked at the Institute of Linguistics and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, and from 1994 to 2000 he was a member of the Moldovan Parliament. 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 virulent foreword with the purpose of proving that the two countries speak two distinct languages: that is, that there is a Moldovan language distinct from Romanian. The linguists of the Romanian Academy declared that Stati's "Moldovan" words are also Romanian words, while Ion Bărbuţă, the head of the Institute of Linguistics of the Republic of Moldova, described the dictionary as being an "absurdity, serving political goals".