Dezintegrarea granitelor intraeuropene si efectele asupra mobilitãtii demografice a declansat dizolvarea natiunii prin limbã. Carta Europeanã pentru Limbile Regionale sau Minoritare a fost gânditã pentru prevenirea disparitiei limbilor. Cu toate acestea, în unele tãri precum Republica Moldova, desi în principiu sunt acceptate prevederile Cartei, acestea nu sunt implementate deoarece aici nu s-au clarificat încã tensiunile de naturã lingvisticã. Lucrarea oferã o analizã complexã a situatiei lingvistice din aceastã tarã cu implicatii politice, culturale si sociologice, acordând o atentie deosebitã statutului limbii române. Aceastã problemã de stat a stârnit si interesul lui Eugen Coseriu, de aceea vom evidentia si contributia lui în ceea ce priveste afirmarea limbii române ca limbã majoritarã în Republica Moldova.

The problem of the disintegration of intra-European borders and its effects on demographic mobility has brought about the beginning of national dissolution through language. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the document drawn up by the Council of the European Union and ratified by more than half of the Union member countries is a document of language policy meant to protect languages from extinction. However, there are European countries, such as the Republic of Moldova which, while agreeing in principle with the provisions of the Charter, are unable to apply them as they have not yet clarified the language problems which exist among concurrent majority languages. The paper offers a multisided analysis of the linguistic situation in this country - political, cultural, linguistic and sociological - with special attention paid to the status of the Romanian language. Eugen Coseriu also dealt with this problem, and his scientific contribution to the topic of affirming Romanian as the majority language in the Republic ofMoldova will be emphasized.