Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joseph Haltrich, author of fairytales/stories for children from the Transylvanian Saxon folklore; Dutz Schuster, writer and poet; Oskar Pastior, poet; Dr. Misch Orend, author, "Kruge und Teller", and other works about Transylvania
He took a trip to Burzenland, which he undertook with his choir in 1897, made the song, now performed in Transylvanian-Saxon, known. The high school teacher and later pastor of Reichesdorf, Carl Römer, who wrote the melody, wrote down 19 songs by Georg Meyndt for the first time in 1899.
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).