Іван Огієнко про «новий ять» у тексті Крехівського Апостола

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the linguistic features of the text of the Krekhiv Apostle, Ivan Ohienko concludes that the language of the monument is «North-Ukrainian or Polissya» with some features of south-western dialects. Later, two researchers repeat-ed and supported I. Ohienko’s opinion about the Ukrainian language of the Krekhiv Apostle’s text, although before that scientist described the language of the monument as Belarusian in its basis, which contains only some Ukrainian features.It is clear that the question of the Ukrainian or Belarusian the monument text lan-guage basis can be considered resolved only after a careful analysis and verifi cation of the linguistic features of the Krekhiv Apostle submitted by I. Ohienko. The author of the article drew attention to the «new yat», as phonetic change, is a bright feature of the Ukrainian language. The purpose of the article is to check whether the examples given in I. Ohienko’s monograph really refl ect the phonetic phenomenon of the «new yat», and already on the basis of this analysis indirectly confi rm or correct the idea of the Ukrainian basis of the Krekhiv Apostle’s language.Careful consideration of the features of nouns-illustrations to the phonetic phe-nomenon «new yat», comparison of these nouns with names that have the same form, but recorded in the text of the Krekhiv Apostle with the preservation of the old vowel, the involvement of statistical indicators – all this gives the author that, most likely, the text of the Krekhiv Apostle does not fi x the real «new yat». Accordingly, the nouns given by I. Ohienko convey only a graphic phenomenon. To verify the result, the author of the article involved another, printed text, which also refl ects the graphical variations between the letters е and the notation of a diff erent origin.The author made the conclusion that forces to correct I. Ohienko’s opinion on the Ukrainian basis of the Krekhiv Apostle’s language.