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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2005  
         
  Article:   LANGUAGE LOSS AND HISTORY (THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSES OF THE ASSIMILATION OF ETHNIC GERMANS IN HUNGARY).

Authors:  GIZELLA T. MOLNÁR. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The most significant problem for Hungarian minorities – including the German minority- is assimilation and the loss of identity: the role of the ethnic language, the cementing force of ethnic culture, has considerably weakened, despite the fact that after the changing of the political system in Hungary in 1989, the process seemed to be slowing down. This statement can be justified by the results of several investigations, according to which “despite the differences between them, all our ethnicities have to face assimilation at an increasingly advanced level. Assimilation can be considered the main enemy for all our ethnicities...”  
         
     
         
         
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