Contribuţia Şcolii Ardelene la dezvoltarea limbii române literare
Contributions to the Development of the Romanian Literary Language

Summary/Abstract: The cultural revival represented by Samuil Micu, Gheorghe Şincai, Petru Maior and Ion Budai-Deleanu presents an aspect of the affirmation of the young Romanian bourgeois from Transylvania. The representatives of the Transylvanian School realized valuable works with a philological character. Prayers book (1779) by Samuil Micu (the first printed book in Latin alphabet); Elementa linguae daco-romanae sive valachicae (1780) by Samuil Micu and Gheorghe Şincai (the first grammar of the Romanian language where the authors affirm the latinity principle ,,of the Romanian language pureness and etymological orthography”); Dialogue for the beginning of Romanian language between nephew and uncle by Petru Maior (initially printed in Ortographia romana sive latino-valachica and reproduced in The Lexicon from Buda, 1825). Samuil Micu and Gheorghe Şincai affirm that Romanian language comes from classic latin and Petru Maior infers correctly that Romanian language comes from popular latin.

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