How can Microsoft add a non existing language to Skype?

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9 years ago

I was shocked to find out that in one of the latest Skype updates a new "language" appeared in the list, Moldavian language, I'm trying to figure out how such a big company doesn't have a system in place of verifying such gross mistakes? Someone from Moldova actually created a discussion but it does not seem to triggered any urge to actually correct this.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/Mh2zF3H.png

Link: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_windesk-skype_startms/use-of-illegal-moldavian-language-in-skype/15f8d095-4912-4839-9788-97f456b077af?tm=1499868733662

To put everything in the right context as shortly as possible: this moldavian was an ex USSR invention trying to force the people of moldova to actually think they speak a different language (other than Romanian) when in fact, moldovans actually have just a different dialect and thats about it. There was a funny (I would say) time in Moldova's history when people wrote romanian with cyrillic alphabet.

First there was Google that thought there was a moldavian language, now there is Microsoft, its really not a huge deal but for some people that have been oppressed by the communism regime in the past, this is a blatant insult.

Thank you guys for reading my rant!

p.s my english might not be perfect because its my second language.

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