Hungarizmi u sičanskome govoru

Abstract

The work will show the representation of Hungarians in the Sičan speech. The Sičan language is the first protected language in the territory of Slavonia. It was protected by the Decision of the Ministry of Culture in 2008. Since then, systematic work has been carried out on all prescribed measures to protect and popularize this very important speech for the Croatian language and Croatian dialectology. The Sičan language belongs to the Old Štokavian languages and preserves the old linguistic state with all the features of the Slavonic dialect of the Posavina subdialect: a five-accent system that includes acute, the absence of the h sound, the softening of the l and n sounds, reduction of vowels in all places (front, middle and back), the existence of secondary vowels, the absence of the consonant group tk, pt, mn, specificity on the morphological, syntactic and formation level. The aim of this paper is to give a lexical overview of the Siče dialect based on the dictionary of the Siče dialect of Sičanske riči. Hungarianisms will be singled out from the lexical corpus and an overview of words of Hungarian origin that entered this protected speech and that remain in active use to this day will be given. The methodology of working on the text, that is, on the language corpus of the published dictionary of Sičanske riči, will be applied. The purpose of the paper is to make a dialectological contribution to the study of the Old Štokavian languages, and especially to the relations and influences of the Hungarian and Croatian languages with regard to the common history of coexistence in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.