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This paper presents the phonological features of the dialect of Šegotići, a village situated in the Istrian Municipality of Marčana. The Šegotići dialect is viewed through the prism of the previously studied Marčana-type idioms (Hreljići, Krnica, Loborika, Marčana, Mutvoran, Orbanići, Peruški, Prodol, Rakalj) and in relation to the southern sub group of the neighbouring Barban …

The analysis of Croatian medieval legal documents, which stand as monuments to their times, results in an overview of the historical development of both the Croatian language and its dialects along with Latin, Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts. The main object of the analysis presented in this paper is the Statute of Poljica, a medieval Croatian …

The paper gives a stylistic interpretation of a “local Cinderella.” This northern Čakavian oral fairytale was first documented in 1876. A stylistic analysis of the text of an oral fairytale requires a complex methodology: factors to be considered are: the nature of an oral fairytale genre, the local idiom, a contemporary reader’s diachronic distance to …