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The recuperation of national identity of Basarabia through Romanian language
Buzu, Aleš ; Balanescu, Eleonora Olivia (advisor) ; Našinec, Jiří (referee)
The Romanian language is almost a perfect case of language which was originally used in a country which was later divided into two parts; the language development in both countries took a different way. As for Romania, especially in the 16th to 17th century and then in the 19th century, the Romanian language went through a natural evolution that as in other European countries was associated with the emergence of state and national self-awareness. As for Bessarabia, since the territory between the Prut and The Nistru River was annexed to the Russian Empire, the development of the Romanian language began to be made towards a significantly different way from that in neighboring Romania. During this period, 1812 - 1918, the Romanian language was gradually losing its position in Bessarabia. In 1829, the use of the Romanian language was forbidden in the administration. In 1833, the use of Romanian language had been forbidden in churches. In 1842, the teaching in Romanian was forbidden for the secondary schools; it was forbidden for the elementary schools in 1860. After a century of Russian occupation, in the whole of Bessarabia there were released only a few hundred books in the Romanian language and primarily it was a religious literature. Also mass media were influenced by russification and their...
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