Transylvanian Landler dialect in the context of "Transylvanian Saxon dialect"

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⭐ Core Definition: Transylvanian Landler dialect

Transylvanian Landler (German: Siebenbürgisch Landlerisch) is a German dialect of the Transylvanian Landler (German: Siebenbürger Landler) community who lives in Sibiu County (German: Kreis Hermannstadt) in southern Transylvania, central Romania. Transylvanian Landler is a southern dialect of the German language and has many linguistic features in common with Bavarian (German: Bairisch). It is estimated that approximately 1,500 people speak this dialect of German at a native level.

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👉 Transylvanian Landler dialect in the context of Transylvanian Saxon dialect

Transylvanian Saxon is the native German dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons, an ethnic German minority group from Transylvania in central Romania, and is also one of the three oldest ethnic German and German-speaking groups of the German diaspora in Central and Eastern Europe, along with the Baltic Germans and Zipser Germans. In addition, the Transylvanian Saxons are the eldest ethnic German group of all constituent others forming the broader community of the Germans of Romania.

The dialect is known by the endonym Siweberjesch Såksesch or just Såksesch; in German as Siebenbürgisch-Sächsisch, Siebenbürgisch-sächsischer Dialekt/Mundart, or Die siebenbürgisch-sächsische Sprache (obsolete German spelling: Siebenbürgisch Teutsch); in Transylvanian Landler dialect as Soksisch; in Hungarian as erdélyi szász nyelv; and in Romanian as limba săsească, săsește, or dialectul săsesc.

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