Original scientific paper

Recent views on medieval Croatian Latin script

Dragica Malić ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb

Abstract

The paper analyses and reinterprets some less common phenomena in Croatian medieval Latin script. Apart from orthographic influx of European Latinism, it indicates incontestible impacts of other Croatian script of the time -Glagolitic and Cyrillic on the Latin script. Special attention is devoted to slips of the pen, some of which are easily identifiable (lapsus calami), while others cause lexicographical and grammatical dilemmas. The latter resulted from misreading of the originals as Latin, Glagolitic and Cyrillic letters had not been easy to discern orthographically. The paper also comments on systemic orthographic influence of Glagolitic and Cyrillic script on the Latin (the employment of identical graphemes for l, n and ļ, ń; graphical overlap g-h-k; ć and j, đ < *d', etc.). Suffix -ti in 3rd person singular and plural of present, previously considered ethical dative accompanying the third person, is now considered Old Church Slavonic suffix -t, while 'i' was preserved as remnant of the Glagolitic semi-vowel which can be likewise encountered in other positions in words.

Keywords

Croatian language; medieval Latin script

Hrčak ID:

165459

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/165459

Publication date:

18.6.2001.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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