Mihály Sárkány: The Hungarian kinship terminology of the Csángós in Moldova, Romania
The lecture in based on my fieldwork in Csángó villlages in Moldova, in 2001 and 2003. The Csángós speak Hungarian and Romanian today, though the two languages are not equally spoken in the villages, in which the inhabitants call themselves Csángós. I was mainly interested in the changes in the Hungarian terminology and its relevance from the point of view of finding the most flexible points in the terminology. Earlier I did a similar research in a village with Hungarian and German speakers in Southern Transdanubia, where I demonstrated that the two terminologies are getting closer to each other with modernization structurally, though the difference of the language was maintained.