Nina Mance: SUSTAINABILITY OF THE OLD LANGUAGE CONDITION IN THE SPEECH OF THE CROATIAN VILLAGE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE VILLAGE OF ŠLJIVOŠEVCI)
Review Article
Nina Mance, Faculty of Education in Osijek, Croatia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59014/OGJV4729
Keywords:
Croatian village, Podravina subdialect, Slavonian dialect, sustainability of speech, Šljivoševci
Abstract
Based on linguistic research from the mid-last century, specifically the research of Josip
Hamm in 1949 and Stjepan Sekereš in 1974, and my own contemporary research
of the Slavonian dialect, this paper will present the characteristics of the speech in
the research of two Croatian dialectologists and the features of the contemporary
state of speech in Croatian villages at all linguistic levels. The research is based on the
study of the Podravina subdialect of the Slavonian dialect of the Shtokavian group,
with the modern linguistic analysis based on the speech of the village of Šljivoševci.
Significant changes have occurred in the speech of the Croatian village seventy years
after Hamm’s research and fifty years after Sekereš’s research. This paper will show
which linguistic levels are most susceptible to changes and which preserve the old
linguistic condition.
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