Kako pročitati Bašćansku ploču
How to read the Baška Tablet

Summary/Abstract: In today's research of the Baška tablet most attention is focused on deciphering its actualcontent because the tablet is largely damaged. It was necessary, especially in a few lines of the first part, to reconstruct the glagolitic writing. This was best done by Branko Fučić. According tohis reading the tablet was transliterated, ie. transcribed from the glagolitic alphabet to the Latin script. After that they could also begin to successfully address the language problems, primarily to determine the sound and morphological transformation that has occurred in the Croatian language since the time when the Baška tablet was created (around the beginning of the 11thcentury). However, the question remains, how to read the angular glagolitic carved text of the first Croatian monument found in the church of Sv. Lucija (St. Lucy) in Jurandvor near Baška onthe island of Krk. Despite some previous partial efforts the author has now, reconstructed in hisbook Povijesna fonologija hrvatskoga jezika (Historical Phonology of the Croatian Language)(Zagreb, 2010) a comprehensive system of the accents of the Croatian language – conveyed at thetime of the tablet, i.e. about a thousand years ago. Therefore we can say that the Baška tablet has finally been read in its entirety. At the end of the article the author presents his version of the Baška tablet in the contemporary Croatian language.

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