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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.
Septemcastrensis de Corona, 16th century Latin-language map depicting Transylvania and its surroundings by Transylvanian Saxon scholar Johannes Honterus. A brief aerial footage of the Transylvanian Saxon Evangelical Lutheran fortified church of Viscri/Weißkirch, one of the most important and well known of its kind in Transylvania.
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.
This is a list of famous Transylvanian Saxons. Academics. Adele Zay, (1848–1928), ...
The Transylvanian Saxon literature (German: Die Siebenbürgisch-Sächsische Literatur) is a form of literature which represents the totality of literary works written in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect (a dialect of the German language spoken in Transylvania, contemporary central Romania since the High Middle Ages) and Standard German by ...
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
The Transylvanian Saxon University encompassed the seven seats of the Saxons (i.e. Sieben Stühle) in Transylvania (all under the high seat of Sibiu/Hermannstadt known as Hermannstädter Hauptstuhl), the later two seats of Șeica (German: Schelker Stuhl) and Mediaș (German: Mediascher Stuhl) as well as the two districts of Brașov and Bistrița, all of them previously inhabited by a ...
Transylvanian Saxon; Zipser-Gründlerisch. Zipser German; ... Russian Language – Map of all the areas where the Russian language is the language spoken by the ...