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Abstract. Wikimoldia was a website active from 2018 to 2019 on which the Romanian Wikipedia was transliterated into Cyrillic by using a PHP script. This paper discusses the technical background of the automatic transliteration performed in Wikimoldia and links the project of a Cyrillic-language Romanian Wikipedia to the political and linguistic controversies surrounding the status of the Moldovan language. It discusses how Wikimoldia can benefit the Cyrillic-socialised minorities in the eastern periphery of Romanian-speaking areas. The use of machine transliteration can also be of interest in the context of other multialphabetic languages.

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   BOOKTITLE = {Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik},
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   ADDRESS = {Tübingen},
   YEAR = {1989},
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   PUBLISHER = {De Gruyter Mouton},
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Christian Koch (2020), “Language Identity Through Cyrillic Script. From Romanian to Moldovan by Automatic Transliteration in the Wikimoldia Project,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 5, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 1065–1080.


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   TITLE = {{Language Identity Through Cyrillic Script. From Romanian to Moldovan by Automatic Transliteration in the Wikimoldia Project}},
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   YEAR = {2020},
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   DOI = {https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-koch},
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