Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 7, 1998.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
Romance-Croatian ethno-linguistic symbiosis in the toponymy of Istria and North Croatian islands
Dunja Brozović Rončević
; Zavod za lingvistička istraživanja HAZU
Sažetak
The exceptionally complex toponymie stratification in the region of Istria and
North Croatian islands reflects the entire complexity of a thousand years of
ethno-linguistic permeation. The Romance languages coexisted with the Croatian
over the centuries, and are still present even today in the small enclaves of Istria.
Romance names are present in the territory of Croatia through several chronological
layers and one can not consider the Romance stratum geographically or
chronologically unique. The pre-Roman nominal layer belongs in a formally
chronological sense to the proto-Romance linguistic stratum. However, since the
Croats, over the course of their gradual colonisation of the area, encountered a
fully Romanized population, the whole toponymie substratum passed through a
specific Romance language filter and all the names had already undergone some
Romance linguistic adaptations. Therefore the Croats accepted them as romanism,
and then adopted these already romanized names to their own linguistic system.
The Roman layer is encompassing the time period from the beginning of
Roman colonisation until the arrival of the Croats (the 6th or 7th until the 9th centuries).
It is followed by the Istriotic and Vegliotic layer (from the 9th to the 13th
centuries), then a Venetian layer from the 13th century onward. The names of
larger settlements in Istria and North Croatian islands are mostly of pre-Romance
or Romance origin, but the microtoponymy of those territories is to a large extend
of Croatian origin. That confirms that after the Slavic arrival, the Romance population
withdrew into the towns, and the Croats, for the long period of time
remained outside the city-walls. That does not mean they didn't mix during centuries
of coexistence. Exactly in place-names one can clearly observe traces of
their ethno-linguistic symbiosis.
Ključne riječi
Croatian toponymy; Romance toponymy; Istria; Veglia; North Croatian islands; Vegliotic; Romance-Croatian symbiosis
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