Tracing Lexical Borrowings in the Balkans Albanian Loan-Words Serbian Speech of Prizren Cover Image

Putevi leksičkog pozalmljivanja na Balkanu - Pozamljenice iz albanskog u srpskom prizrenenskom govoru
Tracing Lexical Borrowings in the Balkans Albanian Loan-Words Serbian Speech of Prizren

Author(s): Snežana Petrović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Balkanološki institut - Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti
Keywords: lexical borrowings; Balkans; serbian speech; Prizren;

Summary/Abstract: During the past centuries, until recently the city of Prizren has persisted as a unique multiethnic and multicultural environment atypical even for the Balkans, well-known for its ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious diversity. Various nations used to live and pass through Prizren in the course of more than six centuries – the Serbs, Turks, Albanians, Aromanians, Greeks and others – leaving their specific marks, visible on the city itself as well as the life and mentality of its inhabitants. One of the most vivid testimonies to this long-term coexistence can be seen in vernaculars of the local population...

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 157-173
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian
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