Original scientific paper
The letter j and ways of its recording in the texts of the Croatian redaction of Church Slavonic
Milan Mihaljević
Abstract
The letter j and ways of its recording in the texts of the Croatian redaction of Church Slavonic
In the Croatian redaction there exists a separate letter for the sound j, but j is not always represented by that letter and there are other ways of its recording...From the presented material it can be seen that the sound j has a free distribution. It occurs in the initial and final position in the word as well as between two vowels and before or after a consonant. This means that we must regard j as a separat phoneme in the Croatian redaction. One of the important reasons for the inconsistent recording of this sound is the Old Church Slavonic scribal tradition, but there are other reasons as well, one of the strongest being its phonetic properties.
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Hrčak ID:
14644
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Publication date:
30.9.1986.
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