Original scientific paper

ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PHONEMES /ļ/ AND /ń/ IN OLD CROATIAN-LATIN SCRIPT

Milan Moguš ; Zagreb

Abstract

In the old Croatian-Latin script the phoneme /ļ/ was usually represented by the combination gl, and the phoneme /ń/ by the combination gn. Although this representation of the phonemes /ļ/ and /ń/ was taken over from Italian graphic notation, such an easy adoption and several centuries of invariability could also have been influenced by local tradition, since the combination gl and gn for /ļ/ and /ń/ respectively, corresponded to the graphemes ĵ1 and ĵn, i.e. "đerv" + l and "đerv" + n in Croatian Glagolitic literature. This indicates that the connection between different graphic notations becomes stronger when they are modified within the same language.

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Hrčak ID:

157422

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/157422

Publication date:

20.12.1982.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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