Loránd Benkő’s connections with the Szeklers
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2022.1.4Keywords:
Benkő families in Transylvania, Szeklers, Szeklerland, medieval settlement historyAbstract
The study deals with the Szekler origins of the late professor of linguistics Loránd Benkő (1921–2011), and the most important results of his research on linguistics and settlement history related to the Szeklers. He considered the Szeklers to be a Hungarian population whose mother tongue had been Hungarian since the 11th century at the latest. In the early Árpádian period, significant groups of Szeklers still lived far away from their present-day residence, on the outskirts of the Carpathian Basin, in close connection with the border defences of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Later, during the 12th–13th centuries, they arrived to the area called Szeklerland, in the south-eastern part of Transylvania, at the behest of the Hungarian kings. This process is attested by the place names left behind, the historical data and the long-distance correlations shown in the Hungarian dialects.
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