Had many Saxon friends and all of them left Transylvania after 1989. I wonder if any of them regret leaving.
I was wondering if anyone here has any info on this dialect and if they had any examples of how it sounds. I tried to look for this but I couldn't find any.
This interest was prompted by reading about the reelection of Romania's president, who it says was raised speaking this dialect.
Hello all,
I am wondering if you have any recommendations for any material on this language. I have been searching for such for a while, but to no avail, and I really am keen on studying it, either by reading material written in the language or reading anything that goes into detail about the dialect itself. Thanks for your time. Edit: For context, I am from Transylvania and I have been mesmerised by this language for a long time, and I am now very interested in detailing myself on its intricacies.
I’ve been reading about the Transylvania saxons a small (use to be quite large) ethnic German minority in Hungary and Romania. How the hell did they manage to stay German for like 800 years, considering they moved to the kingdom of Hungary in the 1100’s/1200’s? How did they not get absorbed by Hungarian and romanian culture and become assimilated both culturally/linguistically and ethnically/racially?
The Grand Duke's speech on Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSz3MxOqF7w
So I’ve been reading about the Transylvania saxons. They migrated to Transylvania Kingdom of Hungary in 1100’s and stayed untill ww2 when a ton were expelled by the Soviet’s and some are around in the modern day.
So my question is how the heck did they manage to stay German over 800 years in foreign lands surrounded by Hungarians and Romanians? They still are German culturally, language wise, and by DNA, but how? How did they not intermix with the Romanian and Hungarians after 800 years? How did they keep their language and traditions and not assimilate. Did they literally only marry other Transylvanian saxons?
Question 2: did other Germans from Germany and Austria consider the Transylvania saxons German even in the 1800-1909’s? Like did the Nazi’s consider the Transylvania saxons to be true pure Germans or did they see them as “mud blood” intermixed peoples of German and Eastern European descent? And did the Austrian empire classify them as ethnic Germans or as Eastern Europeans in say the 1900’s late 1800’s?
PART 2: THE LONG AND TUMULTUOUS SHARED HISTORY OF ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS
This is Part 2-D-ε, the direct continuation of 2-D-δ, which you can find here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AttackOnRetards/comments/rfoxhb/continuation_of_my_previous_posts_about_the/
2-D: THE OTHER ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
2-D-ε: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ROMANIA
ANTIQUITY (Wikipedia expands on this)
Greek colonies established on the Black Sea coast in the 7th century BC became important centres of commerce with the local tribes. Among the native peoples, Herodotus listed the Getae of the Lower Danube region, the Agathyrsi of Transylvania and the Syginnae of the plains along the river Tisza at the beginning of the 5th century BC. Centuries later, Strabo associated the Getae with the Dacians who dominated the lands along the southern Carpathian Mountains in the 1st century BC. Burebista was the first Dacian ruler to unite the local tribes. He also conquered the Greek colonies in Dobruja and the neighbouring peoples as far as the Middle Danube and the Balkan Mountains between around 55 and 44 BC. After Burebista was murdered in 44 BC, his kingdom collapsed.
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The Romans reached Dacia during Burebista's reign and conquered Dobruja in 46 AD. Dacia was again united under Decebalus around 85 AD. He resisted the Romans for decades, but the Roman army defeated his troops in 106 AD. Emperor Trajan transformed Banat, [Oltenia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
... keep reading on reddit ➡
Some guy asked for it in a Steam Worskhop discussion so here it is. There's surprisingly a lot of them, and some of them are scattered across the events folder, which was a pain to find. If I missed anything, please let me know.
Cultures are ordered by the alphabetic order of their parent group. Also note that 'controls' means it's part of the ruler's demesne.
Anglo-Indian/Angrezi (Anglo-Frisian) - Exists at game start. Expands by event to any Dravidian or Indo-Aryan (except Far Western Indo-Aryan) province if controlled by an Anglo-Norman, Easlander, Northlander, Westlander or Ulsterite ruler. (Note that it cannot expand by event through Anglo-Indian rulers, which is similar to the rest of the cultures here. Possibly in oversight, New English isn't counted for Anglo-Indian creation events.)
New English (Anglo-Frisian) - Created by decision if an Anglo-Frisian ruler possesses all of the Kingdom of England. This decision instantly converts all Anglo-Frisian provinces and courtiers in England to New English, but not Brittanic ones. (Listed in events/NEOW_england_events.txt.)
Lytsvin (Baltic) - Created by event if a Lithuanian ruler controls Belarussian provinces.
Brytwysher (Brittannic) - Created by event if a Briton, Southerner or Scouse ruler controls any Dravidian or Indo-Aryan (Except Far Western Indo-Aryan) province. (This culture does not have the character event which converts rulers if the culture is present in their capital, because according to the events file, "the language is supposed to be spoken by the native population").
Frencig (Brittannic) - Created by event if any Brittannic ruler controls any Francophone province.
Lietuvininkai (Central Germanic) - Created by event if a Prussian ruler controls Lithuanian provinces.
Langobard (Central Germanic) - Created by event if a Bavarian, Rheinlander or Swabian ruler controls Lazian, Lombard, Piemontese, Tuscanian or Venetian provinces.
Schleswigvolk (Central Germanic) - Created by event if a Prussian ruler controls Danish provinces.
Pondicherien (Francophone) - Created by event if any Francophone ruler controls any Dravidian province.
Atlantian (Hellenistic) - Created by event if any Hellenistic ruler controls Doggerman provinces.
Rumi (Hellenistic) - Exists at game start. Expands by event to Turkish, Elbistanli, Egeli, Kapadokyali and Karadenizci provinces if controlled by any Hellenistic ruler (Including Rumi rulers).
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Sziasztok,
Native speaker here. My grandma (also hungarian) grew up in Békés county in the ‘30s. I spent a lot of time with her throughout my childhood and she is very dear to me.
I started to write down her sayings, which are an interesting mix of words/ sayings from my family specifically, words specific to the time and region of her upbringing and serbian/ slovakian/romanian sayings (probably severely mispronounced). I might post the list later, but it’s too personal for me for now :)
While I cannot find the source for many of them, there’s one in which i am particularly interested.
When she says “there’s plenty”, “ohh, we have a lot of those” etc. she often uses the word birityet to say many/plenty.
I.e
- van még tojás?
- ó, van birityet! (Maybe: van mint birityet)
Has anyone encountered it before? Does anyone know where it might come from?
Thanks in advance!
Obligatory: sorry for spelling/formatting I am on my phone and I can barely read back what I wrote.
EDIT: It might also come from my Grandpa who's Transylvanian Saxon, so romanian is likely where it comes from.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
My sister and I would like to learn more about our heritage and have an old bible which belonged to our great grandmother who spoke German. Is anyone able to make out the handwritten notes? No one in our family speaks German and we know no German-speakers so we’re at a loss. Do you know what type of German the bible is printed in? Both my great grandmother and great grandfather were Transylvanian Saxons so it may be a certain dialect. Any information or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
