Abstract (may include machine translation)
In this chapter, I will document the presence of the Romanian and German
languages in the written administration of Transylvanian and Banat towns
with Romanian and German majorities under Dualism. Relying mainly on ar-
chival material, it is possible to demarcate the domains where the two lan-
guages were typically used and the functions reserved for Hungarian, and to
identify possible changes over time. My survey should not be taken as repre-
sentative for other regions and other minority languages of Dualist Hungary.
Town governments controlled by (German-speaking) Transylvanian Saxons
and Romanians seem to have been able to make an exceptionally wide use
of the legal space for local tongues, whereas a combination of voluntary and
enforced Magyarization and thus a rapid shift of official life to Hungarian was
the rule elsewhere.
languages in the written administration of Transylvanian and Banat towns
with Romanian and German majorities under Dualism. Relying mainly on ar-
chival material, it is possible to demarcate the domains where the two lan-
guages were typically used and the functions reserved for Hungarian, and to
identify possible changes over time. My survey should not be taken as repre-
sentative for other regions and other minority languages of Dualist Hungary.
Town governments controlled by (German-speaking) Transylvanian Saxons
and Romanians seem to have been able to make an exceptionally wide use
of the legal space for local tongues, whereas a combination of voluntary and
enforced Magyarization and thus a rapid shift of official life to Hungarian was
the rule elsewhere.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire |
| Editors | Prokopovych Markian, Bethke Carl, Scheer Tamara |
| Place of Publication | Leiden |
| Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
| Pages | 135-159 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789004407978 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | Central and Eastern Europe, ISSN 1877-8550 ; 9. |
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