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2. Transylvanian Saxon dialect - Wikipedia

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   The number of native Transylvanian Saxon speakers today is estimated at approximately 200,000 persons. Transylvanian Saxon is also the native dialect of the current President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, by virtue of the fact that he is a Transylvanian Saxon. [19] It is also the native dialect of well known German rock superstar Peter Maffay.

3. Transylvanian Saxons - Wikipedia

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   Lived since the High Middle Ages onwards in Transylvania as well as in other parts of contemporary Romania. Additionally, the Transylvanian Saxons are the eldest ethnic German group in non-native majority German-inhabited Central-Eastern Europe, alongside the Zipsers in Slovakia and Romania (who began to settle in present-day Slovakia starting in the 13th century).

4. List of Germanic languages - Wikipedia

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   Transylvanian Saxon; Rhine Franconian. Hessian; Palatine. Pennsylvania German (spoken by the Amish and other groups in southeastern Pennsylvania; Lorraine Franconian; East Central German. Thuringian; Upper Saxon; North Upper Saxon–South Markish; Silesian. Halcnovian; Wymysorys (with a significant influence from Low Saxon, Dutch, Polish, and ...

5. Saxon language - Wikipedia

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   Saxon language may refer to: Old Saxon, a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German Middle Saxon, a language that is the descendant of Old Saxon and the ancestor of modern Low German; Low Saxon language or Low German, modern successor language of Old Saxon; Anglo-Saxon language or Old English, the ancestor of modern English

6. Transylvanian Saxon culture - Wikipedia

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   Illustration from 'Die Gartenlaube' (1884) depicting a group of Transylvanian Saxons during the Middle Ages. The Transylvanian Saxons, a group of the German diaspora which started to settle in Transylvania, present-day Romania, since the high medieval Ostsiedlung, have a regional culture which can be regarded as being both part of the broader German culture as well as the Romanian culture.

7. Drèents dialects - Wikipedia

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   The dialects from the north and the east (see below: 'Noordenvelds' and 'Veenkoloniaals') are somehow more related to Gronings (a Northern Low Saxon dialect), the dialects from the south-west are 'Stellingwerfs', and the dialects in a few villages along the southern border with the Grafschaft Bentheim are considered to be Sallaans (because they have an umlaut in the diminutives).

8. Brateiu - Wikipedia

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   Brateiu (German: Pretai; Hungarian: Baráthely; Transylvanian Saxon dialect: Pretoa) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania.It is composed of two villages, Brateiu and Buzd, each of which has a fortified church.

9. List of Transylvanian Saxons - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of famous Transylvanian Saxons. Academics. Adele Zay, (1848–1928), ...