Buzet dialect

Buzet dialect
Buzet dialect
buzetski dijalekt
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western Chakavian Buzet dialect; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	ckm-u-sd-hr18

The Buzet dialect (Croatian: buzetski dijalekt; also known as buzetsko-gornjomiranski or gornjomiranski) is a sub-dialect of the Chakavian dialect in Croatia. It is spoken in northern Istria around Buzet.^[1]

The Buzet dialect is a natural transition between Chakavian, Kajkavian and the Slovenian language. Initially some considered it part of the Kajkavian language area, in the past it was also classified (e.g. by Fran Ramovš) as a Slovene dialect, but other linguists, including Mieczysław Małecki and Pavle Ivić among others, managed to rightly define it as Chakavian and part of the literary Serbo-Croatian language.^[2]^[3]

The primary features that separate Buzet dialect from the rest of the Chakavian dialects are in the development of the Common Slavic vocalism:^[4]

*/ě/ > /ẹ/ (closed e)
*/e/, */ę/ > opened e (just like in most Kajkavian speeches)
*/u/ > /ü/
syllabic */l/ > /u/
*/ǫ/ > /a/

Prosodical system diverges from that of other Chakavian speeches (having lost, for example, the difference between long a short accented vowels).^[5] Another unusual feature is the usage of Kajkavian interrogative pronoun kaj "what", instead of the usual Chakavian ča.

As far as the division of Chakavian dialects in Southeastern and Northwestern is concerned, Buzet dialect belongs to Northwestern Chakavian. The Buzet dialect can be divided into two sub-dialects, Northern (majority) and Southern (minority).^[6]

Notes

^ Lisac 2009, p. 35.
^ Lisac 2009, p. 42, 45–46.
^ Lončarić 2021, p. 78–79.
^ Lisac 2009, p. 35–42.
^ Lisac 2009, p. 38–39.
^ Lisac 2009, p. 46.

References

Brozović, Dalibor (1988). Čakavsko narječje; Jezik srpskohrvatski / hrvatskosrpski, hrvatski ili srpski (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: JLZ Miroslav Krleža. ISBN 953-0-30225-8.
Lisac, Josip (2009). Hrvatska Dijalektologija 2. Čakavsko narječje [Croatian Dialectology 2: Chakavian dialect] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Golden Marketing-Tehnička knjiga. pp. 35–50. ISBN 9789532121698.
Lončarić, Mijo (2021). "Buzetski dijalekt i kajkavština". Kaj (in Croatian). 54 (250) (3–4): 77–84. doi:10.32004/k.54.3-4.3. S2CID 248718149.
Vivoda, Nataša (2005). Buzetski govori (in Slovenian). Koper: Univerza na Primorskem, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Založba Annales. ISBN 961-6033-65-4.

External links

"Buzetski (gornjomiranski) dijalekt", Istrian Encyclopedia (in Croatian), 2005

[FOOTNOTELisac200935-1] Lisac 2009, p. 35.

[FOOTNOTELisac200942,_45–46-2] Lisac 2009, p. 42, 45–46.

[FOOTNOTELončarić202178–79-3] Lončarić 2021, p. 78–79.

[FOOTNOTELisac200935–42-4] Lisac 2009, p. 35–42.

[FOOTNOTELisac200938–39-5] Lisac 2009, p. 38–39.

[FOOTNOTELisac200946-6] Lisac 2009, p. 46.

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