Vermindert und trotzdem gestärkt. Statuswandel der historischen Regionalsprache Deutsch in Siebenbürgen

Doris SAVA

doi:10.25167/pg.4681

Published: 2022-01-03

No. 11 (2021)

Diminished and yet strengthened. Status change of the historical regional language German in Transylvania

Doris SAVA

Germanistische Werkstatt

Section: Linguistics

https://doi.org/10.25167/pg.4681

Abstract

The article offers insight into the historical anchorage of the German language in Siebenbürgen (Transylvania) and outlines thereby also the transformation of a community and the current situation of the German language in Romania and its speakers. Historical and current variants of the German language in Transylvania are interwoven presentations of several traditional research fields of the Romanian German philology, which took it upon itself to attend to the fostering of the German language, literature and culture, and thereby to try maintain a weighty legacy.

Keywords:

Siebenbürgen (Transsylvania), historical regional German language, multilingualism, Romanian German

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SAVA, D. (2022). Diminished and yet strengthened. Status change of the historical regional language German in Transylvania. Germanistische Werkstatt, (11), 197–209. https://doi.org/10.25167/pg.4681

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