Original scientific paper

The phonological characteristics of today’s speech in Kastav

Irena Drpić

Abstract

The work presents phonological (linguistic) characteristics of local speech of Kastav. The analysis contains inventory, distribution and origin of prosody, vocalism and consonants. As a new classification confirms, the speech of Kastav belongs to the northeast istrian ekavian čakavian dialect. Despite some newer tendencies in phonology, the local speech of Kastav keeps its ancient origins and it belongs to native, indigenous idioms of that linguistic area.

Keywords

Kastav; phonology; ekavian čakavian dialect

Hrčak ID:

9293

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/9293

Publication date:

26.2.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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