Talk:Transylvanian Saxon dialect
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Language ???
editThere is no "Transylvanian Saxon language". It is just a German dialect, a variety of the Moselle Franconian dialects. The article should be renamed into Transylvanian Saxon dialect. --Olahus (talk) 17:36, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
- Good! Moving: dialect! Doncsecztalk 19:20, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
But why not possible the moving? Who was blocked the article? Doncsecztalk 06:24, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
- Speakers of Standard High German have no chance of understanding this dialect, hence, from the point of linguistic distance, it can easily be called an own language. It also has its own written and printed literature, music, poems, etc. And it is historically documented for several hundreds of years. It is easier for modern German speakers to understand the Pennsylvania German language in the United States (which in Wikipedia we call a language) than to understand Transyvanian Saxon. The first isolated from today's German about 300 years ago, the second more than 800 years. --El bes (talk) 16:50, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
- Wlachs usually say the eight decades old Hertsa region is an important, ancient ethnograpical region—but they say the since medieval times till today by Szeklers populated Szeklerland doesn't even exist. Their mind just can't comprehend a language in the middle of their 165 years old country. ;)
In fact every ethnograpical region of Rumania according Rumanian Wikipedia* lies on former Austro-Hungarian territory—they couldn't invent one of their Southern or Eastern (Ungrowallachian or Moldovan) side of the Carpathians to show off with. After this reply maybe they will create one another fantasy with AI. :D
* it shows now 15 Rumanian, 3 Hungarian (Szeklerland missing) and 1 German ethnograpical regions ~2026-15216-58 (talk) 10:10, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
- Wlachs usually say the eight decades old Hertsa region is an important, ancient ethnograpical region—but they say the since medieval times till today by Szeklers populated Szeklerland doesn't even exist. Their mind just can't comprehend a language in the middle of their 165 years old country. ;)
dead links.....
editthe following is a dead link: "Hörprobe in Siebenbürgersächsisch (Mundart von Honigberg - Hărman) und Vergleich mit anderen Germanischen Sprachen (German)" thanks for removing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.90.66.94 (talk) 11:40, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Information on the sale of germans of romania
editthere is large article in the german wiki with plenty of sources concerning this topic
might be helpful to remove the "specify"
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikauf_von_Rumäniendeutschen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paranoid Android1208 (talk • contribs) 08:41, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Etymology
editNeither on this page, nor the page on the Transylvanian Saxons, does it really mention why the language and people are called Transylvanian Saxon. In fact, both articles mention that most of the settlers were originally from the Low Countries, and neighboring parts to the east. I figure the name must come from the histori Duchy of Saxony, but if that's the case, then that probably needs to be explicitly stated on both articles since "Saxony", today, is a label for areas much further east. Criticalthinker (talk) 01:05, 2 June 2025 (UTC)