Phonological system of standard Macedonian from typological point of view in broader context with southern-slavonic languages Cover Image

Fonologický systém spisovnej macedónčiny v širšom kontexte južnoslovanských jazykov
Phonological system of standard Macedonian from typological point of view in broader context with southern-slavonic languages

Author(s): Júlia Dudášová-Kriššáková
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Phonological system; standard Macedonian; Slavonic languages; languages of Balcan language union

Summary/Abstract: Standard Macedonian together with standard Bulgarian belong to eastern group of southern-slavonic language group. Both languages represent closely related languages and from the morphologic typology point of view rank to analytical type of languages in which disappeared declintion and relations among words are expressed with the help of articles, prepositions and conjunctions. From point of view of phonological typology they belong to different language types. While Bulgarian belongs to extreme consonatic type with simple vocalism (6 vowels) and developed consonantism (39 consonants), Macedonian has the most simple phonological system of all Slavonic languages, which consists of 31 phonemes (5 vowels and 26 consonants). It is conditioned with fact, that for Bulgarian phonological system is characteristic consonantic soft correlation, that is differentiating hard-soft opposits in most articulative lines of consonants, while in standard Macedonian only remnants of articulative lines of consonantic soft correlation /л–љ, н–њ, к–ќ, г–ѓ/ were preserved, that is why Macedonian consonantic subsystem contains up to 13 consonants less than the Bulgarian one. M. LACKOVÁ Morfologické osobitosti medzijazykových homoným v súčasných slovanských jazykoch Morphological Features of Interlingual Homonyms in Contemporary Slavic Languages

  • Issue Year: 49/2014
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 138-147
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Slovak