Aron Pumnul was a Romania

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n philologist and teacher, national and revolutionary activist in Transylvania

Transylvania

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  and later in Bucovina (then in the Habsburg Monarchy

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He was the subject of the poem "La mormântul lui Aron Pumnul" (At the Grave of Aron Pumnul) by Mihai Eminescu

Mihai Eminescu

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In the field of linguistics, he supported the adoption of Latin alphabet instead of the Cyrillic alphabet, but he opposed direct loanwords from other Romance languages

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, promoting instead the Romanianization of the language, through the creation of words using Romanian roots (for instance vorbământ for etymology

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 and tâmplământ for history

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) or importing Latin words by passing them through the phonetic changes from Latin to Romanian.