Slovak dialects
David Powelstock
pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU
Wed Jul 23 13:35:15 UTC 2008
Thomas,
Are you quite sure about the Common Czech macrodialectical variant of vozík
as vozejk? In my (limited) understanding and (limited) experience, the ý/ej
alternation is not generally extended to í/ej.
Cheers,
David Powelstock
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Slovak dialects
Dear all,
As part of some work I am doing on Czech attitudes to things Slovak
(especially language issues), I have taken a sentence suggested by J. V.
Neustupný & J. Nekvapil to illustrate Czech dialectal variation, Dej mouku
ze mlýna na vozík, and sought to extend it eastwards. The schema below
should give some indication of how the sentence changes (assuming that you
can read it!), but I can also send individuals an attachment which provides
a clearer overview, if required.
I wonder whether any Slovak speakers can offer refinements (or know of
anyone who might be able to offer refinements), bearing in mind that I don't
want to over-complicate matters with too much localised variation. I would
particularly like to hear suggestions for the basic dialectal forms used in
Western Slovak (south-eastern area) and Central Slovak (southern area).
All suggestions appreciated.
CZECH REPUBLIC
SLOVAKIA
Codified varieties
Standard Czech (spisovná cestina)
Dej mouku ze mlýna na vozík
Standard Slovak (spisovná slovencina)
Daj múku z mlyna na vozík.
Macrodialects
Common Czech (obecná cestina)
Dej mouku ze mlejna na vozejk
Traditional dialects (and dialect groups)
Bohemian*
North-eastern, Central, South-western, Czech-Moravian
Dej mouku ze mlejna na vozejk
Western Slovak
Northern
Hodz (Daj?) múku z mlýna na vúz (vozík?).
South-western
Daj múku ze mlyna na vozík.
South-eastern
???
Central Moravian (Hanák)
Dé móku ze mléna na vozék
Central Slovak
Northern
Daj múku z mlyna na blahobyt (?).
Southern
???
Eastern Moravian
Moravian-Slovak
Daj múku ze mlýna na vozík
Eastern Slovak
South-western
Daj múku z mlyna na vozík.
Central
Daj muku z mlina na vozik.
Eastern
Daj muku z mlina na vozik.
Silesian
Lachian-Silesian (Silesian-Moravian), Silesian-Polish Silesian-Moravian
Daj muku ze mlyna na vozík
Other groups
Goral, Ukrainian, Hungarian area
Not applicable?
* In practice, Bohemian dialects are largely synonymous with common Czech,
although parts of western and south-western Bohemia (including the city of
Plzen and the west of the district of Práchensko) retain distinctive
dialectal features.
Thanks,
Tom
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