Original scientific paper
The Influence of Migrations on the Neoštokavian Ijekavian Subdialects in the Neretva Region and in Lower Herzegovina
Domagoj Vidović
orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-0237
; The Institute of Croatian language and linguistics, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The dialectological situation in the Neretva region and Lower Hercegovina is very complex. In the past, the Neretva basin was the boundary between Šćakavian and Štokavian dialects, while today it is the boundary between Ikavian and Ijekavian Štokavian dialects. Only a little to the east is the boundary between the west Štokavian and the east Štokavian dialects; in the south, Štokavian dialects come into contact with south Čakavian dialects, in addition to which this whole area is under a strong influence of the Dubrovnik dialect, and frequent migrations have changed the dialectal picture. The linguistic analysis undertaken in this paper confirms that the local subdialects belong to the west Štokavian dialect, while the analysis of historical sources, toponymy, and the speech of immigrants from this area suggests that the subdialects which are now Ijekavian were formerly Ikavian.
Keywords
Neoštokavian Ijekavian subdialects; substratum; migrations; sociolinguistics
Hrčak ID:
144203
URI
Publication date:
31.1.2010.
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