Review article
CHAKAVIAN DIALECT AS THE LANGUAGE OF LITERACY AND LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT DAY
Josip Lisac
; Odjel za kroatistiku i slavistiku Sveučilišta u Zadru, Hrvatska
Abstract
This paper deals with the fate of chakavian dialect in Croatian literacy and literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. It points out that the popular Croatian language in the Middle Ages was usually chakavian, often chakaviankajkavian, rarely with the infiltration of štokavian, although there were also štokavian texts, especially in the Dubrovnik area. Latin as well as Old Church Slavonic were also used as the Croatian standard language. In the difficult 16th century outstanding results were achieved in literature, including that of chakavian speakers, who as early as that wrote under the štokavian influence, which tells us about what the future of the Croatian language would be and what in the 17th century was accurately predicted by the chakavian writer from Pag, Bartol Kašić. At the beginning of the 17th century, Juraj Baraković was the last significant chakavian poet before the appearance of dialectal authors (Nazor and others) in the 20th century. However, even in the 17th century there were still many chakavian texts which also appeared in Gradišće (Mekinić). After the mid-18th century chakavian writing outside Gradišće had completely died down, so in the 19th century there were very few works written in chakavian. In the 20th century numerous valuable works in Croatian dialectal literature were created, those written in chakavian also included.
Keywords
Chakavian dialect; standard language; dialectal literature
Hrčak ID:
115905
URI
Publication date:
10.1.2014.
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