Nume de țări și de popoare în scrieri normative ale Școlii Ardelene
Names of countries and nations in linguistic normative works of Scoala Ardeleana

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to research a specific part of the vocabulary comprised in three normative linguistic works issued by the representatives of Scoala Ardeleana: Ioan Piuariu-Molnar, Deutsch-Walachische Sprachlehre (1788), Lesicon românescu-lătinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu (1825), Ioan Alexi, Grammatica daco-romana sive valachica (1826). The studied corpus consists of a larger category of terms denominating countries and their inhabitants. Despite the fact that relevant common influences can easily be noticed among these three works, they are nevertheless complementary when it comes to the corpus naming continents, countries, regions and people, populations, nations. Our paper focuses on illustrating the variety of these terms, which prove not only a conscience of identity, but also a conscience of diversity, from both linguistic and cultural perspective. This aspect applies not only to local aloglot population (native speakers of a different language than Romanian), but also to nations from different regions of the world. The etymology of those words, of which many are neologisms, points to classical, medieval and modern Latin, Latin being equally the model and the borrowing main source for modernizing Romanian language.

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