A vajdasági magyar helységnevek hivatalos használatának problémái
Problems of the official use of Hungarian place names in Vojvodina

Summary/Abstract: Twenty years ago the Federal Law on the Rights of National Minorities and the Decision of the Provincial Assembly on the official use of the languages and writings of national minorities in Vojvodina gave direct impetus to the settlement of the official status of Hungarian place names in Vojvodina. In 2003 the Language Committee of the National Council of the Hungarian Minority dealt in several meetings with the issue of place names of the settlements in which Hungarian is also an official language. In 2004, they discussed the nomenclature of settlements where the Hungarian language is not in official use. The proposal was enacted and published in the Provincial Official Gazette. There are some problematic names of which some differ from those recognized by the Hungarian Geographical Names Committee, of others there is no public knowledge or are completely different from the ones preferred by the majority nation, and there are even some which were entered into the list in a wrong form. Some of the newly put place name signs have been vandalized due to the strangeness of the name or because the settlement has only a small Hungarian population.

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