The project aims at insights into language ideologies through investigating processes of change, which are taking place after launching a
language revitalization program in 2001 among a marginalized linguistic minority in Romania, the Moldavian Csángós. In 2001 a
Hungarian language revitalization program was launched in the Csángó villages. Both processes of 'invention' and 'erasure' (Pennycook &
Makoni 2006) define the language situation. The main research question is: how do the participants identify themselves as Csángós in the
context of the language revitalization program? The project has collected an extensive, unique database including classroom data and
interviews. Also new inclusive and participatory visual methods have been developed during fieldwork. A sociolinguistic description of
the Program is ready and first analyses have pointed out how translanguaging pedagogies can bring local linguistic practices to the fore
and thus connect different generations.
