Also includes Belorussian 20,000, Crimean Turkish 1,859, German 7,000, Russian 562,000, Ukrainian 600,000, Tatar, possibly Yiddish. The number of languages listed for Moldova is 5. Also in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine. Indo-European , Slavic, South, Eastern. Bible portions 1823-1994.
Cultural center is Kishinev.
Some also in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Romania. Altaic , Turkic, Southern, Turkish. Has literary status. Cyrillic script introduced in 1957. Close to Turkish, but uses Russian Orthodox Christian religious vocabulary in contrast to the Islamic vocabulary of Turkish.