Original scientific paper
MORAVČE LOCAL SPEECH
Anita Celinić
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb
Abstract
Moravče is a place in Sesvetsko Prigorje. On basis of the contemporary administrative division it is a part of Grad Zagreb (City of Zagreb) in its northeast fringe. According to Ivšić's classification, the Kajkavian-based local speech at Moravče belongs to the conservative Zagorjean-Međimurean group, meaning that the basic Kajkavian accentuation is preserved to a great extent there, i.e. that it has not been affected by accentual innovations as to the intonation of long and stressed vowels or shifting of the accent position. In this way the fringe-positioned Prigorje settlement has some basic accentuation features in its local speech that are characteristic to a great extent for the tongues of Hrvatsko Zagorje's central part. The Moravče local speech is a three-accent one, with no unstressed long vowels (there is one exception), and with no oxytones. Secondarily accentuated next-to-last syllables, the ones with initial long stress, as well as initial short stress are accentuated with the acute accent (pre 'pero', im. ptạ 'peta'). The acute stress has been replaced with the circumflex in the last syllable or the single syllable. The inventory of long accentuated vowels amounts to nine phonemes; the number is the result of vowel-and-accent development where extension of the secondarily accentuated initial short syllable has taken place, and where in some cases the subsequently extended vowels differ from the initial long ones.
In this paper the local speech has been analysed primarily from the point of view of phonology, and some basic morphological data has been added as well.
Keywords
Moravče, sesvetsko Prigorje; local speech; dialectology; Croatian language, Kajkavian dialect
Hrčak ID:
171212
URI
Publication date:
30.11.2016.
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