They spoke a Swabian dialect of Germany. Being separated from Germany for 300 years they held a more distinct dialect and also adopted many words from Serbian, Romania, and Hungary.
Germany proper in itself is internally VERY fractured dialectwise. Regarding the German minority in Romania: It depends on the subgroup. Transylvanian Saxons speak/spoke a dialect of the West central dialect group, as their ancestors were mostly from the West-central area (from the Moselle and Mid-Rhine areas, mostly present-day Rhineland Palatinate and partially Luxemburg), which was unique as a settlement pattern in Eastern Europe for ethnic Germans. Their ancestors were invited by the Hungarian crown to Transilvania to defend the border in the Middle Ages. Later ethnic German settlers came to present-day Romania to other areas, mostly the Banat, during the 18th century. They were originally from Southern German regions; areas like Swabia, Bavaria and Austria (i.e. speaking South German dialects), invited by the Austrian-Hungarian crown after the defeat of the Turks when many areas were depopulated in the plains due to massive warfare and turmoil. Due to the long geographical isolation from the rest of Germany, both ethnic German subgroups preserved many archaisms and older pronounciation patterns in some respects. And both dialect groups also incorporated some (but not many) Hungarian, Romanian and South Slavic words due to language contact and cultural contact over the centuries. They all used standard German in writing, but dialectwise, they used their own vernacular in everyday life. After WWII, during the Ceausecu Era, and also in the past 25 years, several hundred thousand ethnic Germans repatriated to both Germany and Austria and were largely assimilated there.
Didn't the germans in Romania speak a dialect which is very different from standard German?
chamboyette853 well the accent is a little bit diffrent, the alphabet is spelled preaty much the same
They spoke a Swabian dialect of Germany. Being separated from Germany for 300 years they held a more distinct dialect and also adopted many words from Serbian, Romania, and Hungary.
Germany proper in itself is internally VERY fractured dialectwise.
Regarding the German minority in Romania: It depends on the subgroup. Transylvanian Saxons speak/spoke a dialect of the West central dialect group, as their ancestors were mostly from the West-central area (from the Moselle and Mid-Rhine areas, mostly present-day Rhineland Palatinate and partially Luxemburg), which was unique as a settlement pattern in Eastern Europe for ethnic Germans. Their ancestors were invited by the Hungarian crown to Transilvania to defend the border in the Middle Ages.
Later ethnic German settlers came to present-day Romania to other areas, mostly the Banat, during the 18th century. They were originally from Southern German regions; areas like Swabia, Bavaria and Austria (i.e. speaking South German dialects), invited by the Austrian-Hungarian crown after the defeat of the Turks when many areas were depopulated in the plains due to massive warfare and turmoil.
Due to the long geographical isolation from the rest of Germany, both ethnic German subgroups preserved many archaisms and older pronounciation patterns in some respects. And both dialect groups also incorporated some (but not many) Hungarian, Romanian and South Slavic words due to language contact and cultural contact over the centuries.
They all used standard German in writing, but dialectwise, they used their own vernacular in everyday life. After WWII, during the Ceausecu Era, and also in the past 25 years, several hundred thousand ethnic Germans repatriated to both Germany and Austria and were largely assimilated there.
It's known as Sibiu, the name Hermannstadt doesn't exist anymore.
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