North Transylvanian
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North Transylvania is a high German language variety from the north of the Transylvania region in Romania . It belongs to the Transylvanian-Saxon language , which has a lot in common with the Luxembourgish language , and includes the Bistritz dialect along with other dialects .
Northern Transylvanian has more Upper Saxon influences than Southern Transylvanian . The dialect is recorded in the North Transylvanian-Saxon dictionary , which also documents the North Transylvanian culture.
The origin of Northern Transylvania is to be found south of the weng / wein line .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermine Klein: The Bistritz dialect compared with the linguistic atlas of the German Empire . Elwert, Marburg 1927 (p. 161).
- ↑ Vocabulary collected on 850,000 pieces of paper. North Transylvanian-Saxon dictionary completed. Press release from the University of Bonn on February 22, 2007; Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ Hermine Klein: The Bistritz dialect compared with the linguistic atlas of the German Empire . Elwert, Marburg 1927, p. 247.