Romanian toponymy in Szabó T. Attila’s works. Solnoc-Dăbâca county. II. Consonantism

Abstract

The Magyarization of Romanian toponymy through the adoption of a different type of spelling is characterized by a series of oscillations due to the different phonetic systems of the two languages in contact (the different number of phonemes). Another reason for the inconsistency in the writing of toponyms is the personal knowledge of the individuals who recorded the microtoponyms in documents. These factors can account for the occurrence of different letters that represent the same phonetic sequence or the necessity of creating new letter combinations to express a phonetic sequence which does not have a correspondent in the Hungarian consonantal system.