Regional speleonymy from the viewpoint of ethnic and lingual contacts (with examples of speleonyms in the Slovenský Kras National Park)
Regional speleonymy from the viewpoint of ethnic and lingual contacts (with examples of speleonyms in the Slovenský Kras National Park)

Summary/Abstract: In the presented paper, we pay attention to ethnic and lingual factors applied in thecreation and functioning of the regional non-standard speleonymy. The aim of the studyis to analyse specific forms of determination of the lingual and extralingual aspectsof speleonyms via the ethnolingual elements. Our claims are based on the results ofthe empirical research of speleonyms (names of caves and abysses) from the territoryof the Slovenský Karst National Park, located in the south-eastern part of Slovakianear the Slovak-Hungarian state border. It is an area with intense Slovak-Hungarianethnic and lingual contacts. Besides local contacts, however, the form of speleonymsis also determined by the ethnolingual character of speleological groups doing researchin the given area. The analysed material is gained from the updated electronic versionof Zoznam jaskýň Slovenskej republiky (List of Caves in the Slovak Republic).At the end of the paper, the studied set of data is compared with the standardized formsof speleonyms and their forms found in tourist maps in order to describe the positionof speleonyms of Hungarian origin from the viewpoint of language competition andlanguage status of the Hungarian language in Slovakia.

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