A NYELVI PROVINCIALIZMUS HAGYATÉKA
THE LEGACY OF LINGUISTIC PROVINCIALISM

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to set focus on the native language provincialism also present in the language use of the Vojvodina Hungarians, stating that it is such a qualitative category, the intensity of which varies, but which does not primarily depend on one’s level of general education. One finding is that even though certain expressions have an original form, the diaspora living in scattered minority communities cannot make use of this, they don’t even know the original word or the basic meaning of proverbs. The use of the native language of Hungarian minorities has significantly narrowed in the past decades. The friendship circle of young people has also undergone a transformation. Such elements present in folklore texts, which are difficult to comprehend, or which they are unable to comprehend have gradually, but irreversibly disappeared from public knowledge. Within the Hungarian scattered minority communities, the linguistic provincialism within the dwindling Hungarian diaspora has been taken on as a dramatic show of tradition. Slowly – as tradition outlives the use of language – only intercultural relations will remain as an indicator of Hungarian linguistic affiliation.

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