Graffiti in Moldova, which reads: “I am Moldovan! I speak Moldovan!” Image source: "What language do they speak in Moldova?" . by Morgan Fox Morgan Fox is in the second year of the dual MA Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and MS Library and Information Science degrees. She works in Acquisitions and Cataloging Services in the Main Library, where she catalogs Slavic and other area-related language materials, and hopes to continue working in Slavic cataloging after graduating. Previously she received a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (2021) from the Ohio State University. She wrote this blog post in 418 “Languages and Minorities in Europe” in Spring 2023. In a world where national boundaries are often drawn and conceptualized around titular ethnolinguistic majorities (French people and the French language in France, etc.), what is to be made of nations that share a language, albeit with certain regional or dialectical differences, such as German in Germany a...