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Furthermore, the Transylvanian Saxon dialect also varied from village to village where it was spoken (that is, a village could have had a slightly different local form of Transylvanian Saxon than the other but there was still a certain degree of mutual intelligibility between them; for instance, more or less analogous and similar to how English ...
'Hover & Hear' pronunciations in the Transylvanian Saxon language as spoken in Honigberg (Hărman), and compare with equivalents in English and other Germanic languages. Article in the academic journal Nationalities Papers on Transylvanian Saxon identity between 1933 and 1944; Visual short story about the Transylvanian Saxons (with many archive ...
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.
Anglo-Saxon language or Old English, the ancestor of modern English West Saxon dialect, one of the four main dialects of Old English; Upper Saxon German, an East Central German dialect spoken in much of the modern German State of Saxony; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons in the Moselle Franconian group of West ...
Johannes Honter (Latin: Ioannes Honterus), theologian; Christian Schesaeus, poet, humanist, and Lutheran pastor; Johann Sommer (Latin: Ioannes Sommerus), theologian; Joseph Haltrich, author of fairytales/stories for children from the Transylvanian Saxon folklore
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 ...
Théodore Valerio, 1852: Pâtre valaque de Zabalcz ("Wallachian Shepherd from Zăbalț"). Vlach (/ v l ɑː k, v l æ k / VLA(H)K), also Wallachian and many other variants, [1] is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south of the Danube (the Balkan peninsula) and north of the Danube.
Articles about people who were Transylvanian Saxons, people of German ethnicity who were settled in Transylvania (German: Siebenbürgen) in waves starting from the mid-12th century until the late Modern Age (specifically mid-19th century).