Vznik a zánik kalvínskej východoslovenčiny
Origin and extinction of Calvinist East Slavs
Author(s): Péter KirálySubject(s): Cultural history, Phonetics / Phonology, Historical Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages, 18th Century, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: East Slovakian dialect; Slovakian literary language; Slovakian orthography; Slovakian book printing;
Summary/Abstract: The author presents the history of a local language. In the 1750s, in Debrecen religious books were printed for the East Slovakian kalvinists living in the North-East part of the Kingdom of Hungary. These books were written in the East Slovakian dialect of the Zemplén county but in Hungarian orthography. This language had been used until 1923. In Slovakia, however, the adherents of the uniform literary Slovakian language, upon the initiative of the Slovakian kalvinist emigrants settled in the USA, gradually forced the East Slovakian kalvinist dialect out of the ecclesiastical use and in 1955 abolished it finally.
Journal: Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 51/2006
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 31-64
- Page Count: 34
- Language: Slovak
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