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SPONDE: Časopis za jezike, književnosti i kulture između dviju obala Jadrana / Rivista di lingue, letterature e culture tra le due sponde dell’Adriatico / A Journal of Languages, Literatures and Cultures between the two Adriatic coasts, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2024.

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https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15291/sponde.4532

Some Aspects of Lexical Variation in Na-Našo/-u (Molise, Italy)

Lucija Šimičić ; Department of Linguistics, University of Zadar

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Abstract

Molise Croatian is a Štokavian Ikavian variety brought from the East Adriatic coast to the region of Molise at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century. Today it is spoken in three out of four officially recognized Croatian Molise villages in the region of Molise in south Italy, namely those of Mundimitar / Montemitro, Kruč / Acquaviva Collecroce, and Filič / San Felice del Molise, but even there its use has been declining, and intergenerational transmission is interrupted in some parts of the community. The aim of the paper is to present and discuss aspects of diatopic variation in lexicon between the three local varieties on the basis of the terms collected in a local language documentation project and published in Vocabolario polinomico (Sportelli linguistici 2020).

Keywords

Na-našo/-u, Molise (Italy), lexicon, language variation, language shift

Hrčak ID:

320107

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/320107

Publication date:

22.7.2024.

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