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There are some mistakes in the table, in the Comments column. First of all it is not clear that this column refers to the Latin letter column. This article is about the Cyrillic alphabet so I was expecting it to refer to the Cyrillic letters. That aside, I disagree with the following comments:

• "ie after a vowel or if it alternates with ia, elsewhere e": There are exceptions: "piele", "miere", "miez", etc.

• "ii used at end of word, i elsewhere": Most of the time ii at the end of the word is made up of a vowel and a semivowel, in which case it is transliterated in Cyrillic as ий, not just и. Otherwise, final ii is a hiatus, such as in "prii" or "sfii", in which case it is transliterated as ии. There is no situation when just one и would be enough.

• "й is i before vowels": Not just before vowels (could be after, too, as in "rai"), and not always when it comes before a vowel (as in "mie").

• "â in middle of word, î at beginning and end of word": This is the rule (approximately) official in Romania, not in Moldova.

• "ea after a consonant or е, ia elsewhere": Not always true. Exceptions: "viaţă", "chiar", etc. Also, words like "real" don't use я at all.

I don't have any source about the Moldovan (Cyrillic) alphabet, so I can't make corrections myself. I just gave exceptions to show that those comments are mistaken. I hope someone can come with a source and edit the article. — AdiJapan ☎ 13:25, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the modern (Latin-based) alphabet, are the "official" diacriticals comma-below (ȘșȚț) or cedillas (ŞşŢţ)? The table currently uses the latter, but I notice that the Romanian alphabet officially uses the former. If the table is correct, then this difference should be noted somewhere, either here or in Moldovan language. 65.57.245.11 00:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Commas. This article, just like the whole Wikipedia, uses cedillas instead of commas only for technical reasons, although with the spreading of Windows Vista this practice will eventually come to an end. However, there is no point in noting such a detail in this article, because its subject is the Cyrillic alphabet used for the Romanian language in Soviet Moldova, not the Latin alphabet. The article links to the Romanian Alphabet (just above the table), so the readers can find out about the correct diacritics there. — AdiJapan ☎ 05:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]