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За банатския езиков остров
About the Banat language „iceland“

Author(s): Yovka Tisheva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: language island; dialect; Bulgarian; Bulgarian Paulicians.

Summary/Abstract: The main topic of this article is to illustrate language contacts and the language innovations they give rise to, by presenting data on the dialect of the Bulgarian Paulicians living in Serbian Banat. Isolated from the main language territory and surrounded by tree different languages (Romanian, Hungarian and Serbian) this form of Bulgarian language is an example of language island. The analysis of the grammar features of the dialect show that archaic characteristics have not been preserved, but as a result of bilingualism, new features are developed.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 104-111
  • Page Count: 8