North Transylvanian

North Transylvanian
Spoken in	Originally Romania
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Standard German Middle German West Central German Transylvanian-Saxon North Transylvanian
Official status
Official language in	-
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	gem (other Germanic languages)

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

1. ↑ Hermine Klein: The Bistritz dialect compared with the linguistic atlas of the German Empire . Elwert, Marburg 1927 (p. 161).
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ Hermine Klein: The Bistritz dialect compared with the linguistic atlas of the German Empire . Elwert, Marburg 1927, p. 247.