Vasile Stati (born 20 September 1939) is a Moldovan politician and historian.
He studied history and philology at the Moldovan language Department of the State University of Chișinău.
In 2003 he published the first Moldovan–Romanian dictionary, which caused a wave of criticism from the Romanian and Moldovan scientific and political circles, as contrary to the dominant current paradigm of the unity of the two languages.
It contained a foreword whose purpose was to prove that the Moldovan language is distinct from Romanian.
The linguists of the Romanian Academy declared that Stati's "Moldovan" words are also Romanian words, while Ion Bărbuță, the head of the Institute of Linguistics of the Republic of Moldova, described the dictionary as being an "absurdity, serving political goals".