Germans of Romania
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| (36,884 (2011 census) [1]) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Transylvania, Banat | |
| Languages | |
| mainly German in the dialects or variants such as Swabian German and the Transylvanian Saxon dialect as well as Standard German (native language/mother tongue) also Romanian (official/national language for formal and commercial purposes to all fellow Romanian countrymen (especially native ethnic Romanians and other minority ethnic groups of non-German origin) as well as medium of communication amongst the current majority of the younger and older generations of the ethnic minority and also the first language of today's generation of ethnic Germans, being majority monolingual Romanian speakers including those whom confessed to be bilingual). |
|
| Religion | |
| Lutheranism and Roman Catholicism |
The Germans of Romania or Rumäniendeutsche are an ethnic group of Romania. They were of a number of 786,000 of Germans in interwar Romania in 1939, a number that had fallen to 36,884 by 2011 in modern Romania. They are not a single group; thus, to understand their language, culture, and history, one must view them as independent groups:
See Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania for their official representation.
Members of the German family of Hohenzollern who ruled over Romania for a period:
There is a German school in Bucharest, Deutsche Schule Bukarest.
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