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Nowadays, the so-called Banat Bulgarians are a numerous group of the descendants of Bulgarian Catholics, which were forced to emigrate to Wallachia in the end of the 17th century and in the beginning of the 18th century and from there in years 1738–1741 to Banat. Small part of them (after 1878) returned to Bulgaria where they establish new villages. Most of them still live in Romanian territory, decidedly...
In the article, the status of the Silesian ethnolanguage is shortly discussed. The opinions of two groups writing about this topic are presented: those writing from the perspective of the detailed linguistics (historical) and those writing from the perspective of the general linguistics. The author mentions also about the social, legal, and political background that creates the status of ethnolanguages ...
The article presents folk etymologies in the work of Florian Ceynowa (1817–1881), who is the creator of the written version of the Kashubian language, entitled Rozmòwa Pòlôcha z Kaszëbą (1850). Rozmòwa...is maintained in a form of dialogue which preaches the most important information about Kashubians. 30 folk etymologies written by Ceynowa, 3 of which are about the war and 27 about the Bible, serve...
The article presents a genealogical and sociolinguistic classification of Slavic idioms, drawing on the example of Resian. Resian is an autochthonous idiom, spoken in the Resia Valley (Ital. Val Resia), which belongs to the Municipality of Resia (Rozajanski kumün, Ital. Comune di Resia) within the Province of Udine (Ital. Provincia di Udine) in Friuli–Venezia Giulia, an autonomous Italian region....
The article focuses on the selected cognitive aspects of the interpretation of meaning of Polish and Bulgarian compounds with the eco-component in the journalistic discourse. According to the assumptions suggested by J. Bartmiński and S. Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, I define discourse as „a processual and contextual conceptualization of a «communication event» whose objective «created» conceptualization...
Bunjevci from the region of Bačka are a deeply divided community: some of them believe they are a separate ethnic group with a distinct language, while others claim they are a subgroup of Croats and speak a Croatian dialect. The paper explains historical roots of the group’s divided ethnic consciousness and explores its consequences on the construction of their contemporary identities. First, the...
The study is aimed on traces of religiosity in aesthetic-philosophical system of a Russian symbolistic poet, prosaic writer and thinker D.S. Merezhkovsky. The study analyses selected Merezhkovsky’s works with focus on aesthetics, his essays, historiosophic prose and philosophic religious treatises. For Russian spiritual and art culture, importance of Merezhovsky is obvious, especially in...
This article aims at givng a brief description of the Gagauz people in the areas of Bessarabia and Bulgaria. Gaugazes are a group of elusive people, whose origin seems to be obscure because of only indirect written sources. While in Bulgaria, their old country, Gagauzes maintain Bulgarian identity in addition to their own, in Bessarabia they are a distinct ethnic category. Gaugazes probably can be...
The article addresses a phenomenon of Slavic microphilology, outlines the structure and classification of modern Slavic literary microlanguages, introduces their different characteristic, and suggests arguments in favour of forming of Slavic microlinguistics and microphilology.
The aim of the paper is to present the modern Prekmurian language that is nowadays used in Porabje. Porabje, located in Hungary, is a part of the bigger historical region named Prekmurje. While the Prekmurje was divided between Jugoslavia and Hungary after the first world war, one could see that the role of the Prekmurian language in Porabje wasmarginalized. Now it is used only in a few language areas...
In the article, the author describes an evaluation regarding the identity of the indigenous population of Upper Silesia against the specific of this region background. First of all, he focuses on the evaluation concerning the identity of this group after 1989 – on the multidimensional Silesianess. He shows the phenomenon of joining the German minority with many Silesians, which creates the regional...
The article researches a development of the national-cultural movements. The attention is paid to the development of Russophiles and its organizational center „Organization of Saint Vasyl the Great”. Author describes the discussion among Transcarpathian intellectuals regarding the use of Russian language. The refusal of Russophilism by the part of intellectuals led to the development of Narodovetskyy...
The paper concerns the formation of the Croatian ethnic community in the Austro-Hungarian region in the 16th century, the author tracks the development of the literary language of the Croats in western Hungary since the 1750s and monitors establishing contacts with the literary language and orthography changes in Croatia in the second half of the 19th century. It was explained how the expressions...
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