Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 7, 1998.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
Toponymy and dialectology of the islands of Cres and Lošinj
Petar Šimunović
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje
Sažetak
By means of historical and linguistic interpretation of the toponymical corpus
of the islands of Cres and Lošinj, the author shows the dialectal stratigraphy of
the two islands in terms of important isoglosses. Evidence of these isoglosses is
provided by place-names, since they indicate the isoglosses’ earliest positions.
Two isoglosses in particular are discussed: that which delineates the reflexes of
the former short phoneme schwa /3/, and that which delineates the reflexes of jat
/e/.
Studying the history of the names of these islands and other non-Slavic placenames,
the author establishes the historical Roman-Croatian linguistic symbiosis
as a fact beyond dispute. This analysis confirms an early Croatian presence on
Cres and the neighboring islands. The results of this analysis of linguistic and
cultural relationships also confirms historical events, especially the origin of the
Valun Tablet (Valunska ploča), containing eleventh-century texts in both Latin
and Croatian, in Latin Carolingian and Croatian Glagolitic letters, which cite
Croatian names.
Ključne riječi
Croatian; place-names; dialectology; Cres; Lošinj
Hrčak ID:
180289
URI
Datum izdavanja:
21.6.1999.
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