Review article
Contacts between the Slovak and Croatian language reflected in dialects in the surroundings of Bratislava
Ivor Ripka
; Jazykovedny ustav U Štura SAV
Abstract
A national language consists of a group of mutually and functionally differentiated and socially stratified means of expression. Further, these linguistic means are internal items: they belong to various linguistic forms (extant language forms, varieties), which are subject to common developmental tendencies and processes. This is also true for two basic structural national language forms, the standard language and local dialects.
A national language and its varieties relate to other national languages and some of their varieties in identical situations. In the base region of a national language such contacts mainly take place in border-areas, in enclaves and in diasporas in foreign language circles, respectively. As well, the relations between Slovak dialects and dialects of other Slavic and non-Slavic languages have always been determined by specific social conditions and state relations.
Keywords
Croatian in Slovakia; Croats in Slovakia
Hrčak ID:
168564
URI
Publication date:
14.6.2003.
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