Orthographic features of the neo-Latin language Cover Image

Orthographische Merkmale Der Neulateinischen Sprache
Orthographic features of the neo-Latin language

Author(s): Nataliia Shepa, Oksana Barbil
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: Mykhailo Luchkai; NewLatin; New Latin Monophtongs;

Summary/Abstract: In conditions when literary language hadn’t been formalized its role was performed by another language instead, as it happened at Zakarpatia in the XVIII-th - first half of XIX-th century, and it was «the dead» newlatin. The precious work «Historia Carpato-Ruthenorum» was written in these languages by Mykhailo Luchkai.Investigations of linguistic peculiarities of this work are an interesting and less investigated. Observations made on this work particularly under specifics of new Latin monophtongs reproduction give grounds to state that the author leads himself by scientific principles in search of a precise reproduction of a foreign word phonetics.The level of Latin language skills, the knowledge of using the phonetic means, its display by M.Luchkai isn’t lower than by any other central European language.

  • Issue Year: XXX/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 99-103
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: German