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Filologija, No. 63, 2014.

Review article

Tracing the Croatian cyrillic heritage in Slavonia

Milica Lukić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-8153-6370 ; Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Vera Blažević Krezić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-6350-8061 ; Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku

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Abstract

The paper analyzes the representation of monuments written in the Croatian cyrillic (Bosnian cyrillic) script in Slavonia — from the first medieval witnessed and secondarily preserved graphemes and graffiti (Martin, Subocka, Brodski Drenovac) to the complete catechisms, dictionaries and letters of the 17th and 18th century. The aim is to examine the distribution, functionality and peculiarity of Croatian cyrillic (Bosnian cyrillic) script in Slavonia (especially in terms of primers, the ABC books: azbukvica, abekavica, abecevica etc.). It is also important to establish the reasons why there has been a rapid, decisive and final preponderance of Latin alphabet in the given period. The adequacy and validity of the name Slavonic type of the Bosnian cyrillic script will be examined through grapho-morphologic and orthographic peculiarities of the cyrillic script in the documents that are considered to be witnesses of the cyrillic literacy in Slavonia, e. g. Kratka azbukvica i kratak kerstjanski katoličanski nauk (1696.). Brief analysis of the graphemes in Kratka azbukvica will also contribute to proving whether Ivan Gabelić, Jesuit who was a chaplain, preacher and confessor in Trnava at the end of the 17th century, translated and edited cyrillic catechism Kratka azbukvica. The Latin transliteration and brief analysis of Nichola Ogramić’s letter (Nikola Ogramić Požežanin became Bosnian bishop in the 1669. and he had an episcopal authority and the ministry in central Slavonia) will also be presented. It is important to mention that Kratka azbukvica has a different way of writing the voices /lj/ and /nj/ (atypical for Bosnian cyrillic script): combination of letters l and i for voice /lj/ and n and i for voice /nj/.

Keywords

Slavonia; Cyrillic script; Kratka azbukvica i kratak kerstjanski katoličanski nauk (1696.); Matija Jakobović’s Dikcionar (1710.); Nikola Ogramić’s letter (1698.)

Hrčak ID:

138638

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/138638

Publication date:

30.4.2015.

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