On the Romanian Language Spoken in Hungary
On the Romanian Language Spoken in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: We would like to refer to the Romanians in Hungary, as a result of our research during 2000 and 2007. In the majority of the interviews we took to well-known Romanian and foreign linguists I discretely inserted the question: What do you know about the Romanians from Hungary? The native Romanian speakers from Hungary feel as forgotten Romanians. They continually mention the episode when an official from the mother-country, after 1990, confessed that he did not know about their existence (Please, forgive me, Gentlemen, but I did not know you existed!). The answers I got during the interviews made me think they were right. Two exceptions made me believe that the interest in this Romanian community existed, though. It is Lorenzo Renzi’s answer, from Padova and Coralia Ditvell’s answer, whom I consider, without risking to be wrong, a passionate ambassador of the Romanian culture in the Scandinavian countries as Lorenzo Renzi is in Italy. In their answers I found the grounds of my insistence on the main problems to be presented when talking about the Romanians from Hungary.

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