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Употребление юсов в украинских рукописях XVI века
The Use of "jus" in the Ukrainian Manuscripts of the 16th Century

Author(s): Mihály Kocsis
Subject(s): Language studies, Historical Linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, 16th Century, Philology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Slavic linguistics; the Ukrainian language; history of language; orthography;

Summary/Abstract: The present paper deals with the use of two Cyrillic letters (named jus) in the 16th-century Ukrainian manuscripts kept in Hungary. The majority of the codices contains both of these special letters, however, in a number of manuscripts, the confusion of the juses can be observed. The scribes probably tried to follow Middle Bulgarian norms but the orthographic features of the protographs could also appear in the copies weakening the outcome contrary to the scribes’ intention to follow the rules.

  • Issue Year: 55/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 319-331
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian