ФОНЕТСКЕ ОСОБИНЕ ГОВОРА МАСЛОВАРА КОД КОТОР ВАРОША
PHONETIC FEATURES OF THE SPEECH OF MASLOVAR NEAR KOTOR VAROS
Author(s): Suzana J. Pešović StojanovićSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Институт за српски језик Српске академије наука и уметности
Keywords: Maslovare; Kotor Varoš; Herzegovinian-Krajina dialect; Vrbanja župa; Austro-Hungarian period; demographic decline
Summary/Abstract: Maslovare is a small settlement in the Municipality of Kotor Varoš in western Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, located along the Kruševica River at the foot of the Borja, Borci, and Uzlomac mountains; its name is linked to folk legends about boiling milk or animal fat, and the area is characterized by a mountainous landscape, moderate continental climate, rivers, and coal deposits. Historically, the area was inhabited since prehistoric and medieval times, belonged to the medieval župa of Vrbanja, later came under Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian rule, and experienced significant development with the opening of a brown coal mine in 1917, followed by decline after World War II and especially after the 1990s war. Today Maslovare faces strong depopulation and aging demographics, and its local speech—classified within the northwestern branch of the Herzegovinian-Krajina dialect—has recently become the subject of dialectological research aimed at documenting and preserving its phonetic features.
Journal: Српски дијалектолошки зборник
- Issue Year: 70/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 747-857
- Page Count: 111
- Language: Serbian
