Filologija, No. 11, 1982.
Original scientific paper
THE SHORT SEMIVOWEL IN THE KRK DIALECTS
Zvonimir Junković
; Nice
Abstract
On the basis of the situation in the present-day dialects we must believe that on Krk and on the other islands in the Kvarner Gulf the long semivowel (reflex of jers) changed into a, probably via ä, at a time when the short semivowel still preserved its original pronunciation. However, on Krk the short semivowel lost its original features as early as the 14th century, and perhaps even earlier. If the original pronunciation of the short semivowel had still been kept on Krk in the 14th century, it would have been written with a letter "jer" in the Vrbnik Statute, for instance. Since it is not so rendered, but rather the semivowel is written with an apostrophe, it follows that the sound in question was probably one for which the glagolitlc alphabet did not have a letter.And since e or o later developed from this sound, in all probability it was ö. The change of the short semivowel into ö can be explained by the influence of the Vegliot dialect, which, as is well known, was preserved until the end of the 19th century in this area.
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Publication date:
20.12.1982.
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