- Aron Pumnul
Aron Pumnul (
November 27 ,1818 - January 12th/24th, 1866) was aRomania n academic and revolutionary ofTransylvania (then in theHabsburg Monarchy ).He was the subject of the poem "La mormântul lui Aron Pumnul" (At the Grave of Aron Pumnul) by
Mihai Eminescu .In the field of linguistics, he supported the adoption of Latin alphabet instead of the Cyrillic alphabet [ [http://www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/ip/pumnul.htm Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions: Aron Pumnul] ] , but he opposed direct loanwords from other
Romance languages , promoting instead the Romanianization of the language, through the creation of words using Romanian roots (for instance "vorbământ" foretymology and "tâmplământ" forhistory ) or importing Latin words by passing them through thephonetic change s from Latin to Romanian. [Marinella Lörinczi Angioni, "Coscienza nazionale romanza e ortografia: il romeno tra alfabeto cirillico e alfabeto latino ", "La Ricerca Folklorica", No. 5, La scrittura: funzioni e ideologie. (Apr., 1982), pp. 75-85.]References
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