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And no reason not to put it. Please note that I have nothing at all to do witht the Moldovan/Romanian controversy, and fully respect your opinion.
I just put Moldovan language into the page because:
During most of her career, Sofia's songs were said to be sung in Moldovan (Moldavian, to be precise). This is not a question of opinion or anything - officially, there was never any doubt. (let's leave the political reasons WHY it was this way to the article about Moldovan Language, ok?)
Even today, there are many people who call their first language Moldovan. Yes, this language might be identical to Romanian. That does not make it the same language, because a language is a sociopolitical construct, not a linguistic one. Even if it does make it the same language, it is still called by two different names, and there is no reason not to put both of them here.
Her songs were written in cyrillic. If there is anything that differenciated Moldovan from Romanian proper, it was the script.
in controversial situations like this, we should respect the opinion of the persons speaking the language themselves. In 2004, Sofia herself in an interview said "we spoke only moldavian at home" - if you can read Russian, see http://www.prazdnikinfo.ru/5/34/4/i21_11634.htm for the interview. You might hate her for this if you want :-)
Isn't her "really official" name Ротарь, not Ротару? At least surnames of her parents are Ротарь, Ротару might be a romanized version, but is it official in her documents? rado08:20, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
The last "u" in Romanian names is generally very short (just like ending "i") -- in Transylvania names usually don't even have an ending "u", so the name would "Rotar" (BTW, the name means "wheel-maker").
Anyway, the version using "ь" is using Moldavian Cyrillic alphabet, while using "у" is a transliteration of the Romanian name. bogdan | 08:39, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
-Ротарь form was probably used before, as it also appears on Fortuna (fan club) site. I heard that Pieha advised Sofia Rotaru to add an "u". This being not confirmed, it may be plausible that in the beginning the name was spelled as Rotar'. It is clear however that today the name is spelled Rotaru.--Rubikonchik (talk) 21:51, 9 February 2008 (UTC)Rubikonchik
-Sofia Rotaru declared herself of Moldavian origin in numerous interviews and always said that she sang (and sings) in Moldavian. I agree that Romanian might be similar to Moldavian, but this may not be a matter of discussion in this article, which is clearly about Sofia Rotaru and not about the name of the language. By the way, it would be interesing to know how popular she is in Romania and how many times she went there (if any at all).--Rubikonchik (talk) 21:51, 9 February 2008 (UTC)Rubikonchik
Genres
There's a Rotaru fanboy working in Russian, English and probably other Wikipedias. Little can be done about it, but still, would you please remove "electronica", "rap" and "r&b" from genger infobox? There's no way a Soviet pop singer can be either of three. If she have at one moment parodied rap, it does not make her rapper. Netrat (talk) 21:01, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
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