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Why the Slovak Language Has Three Dialects: A Case Study in Historical Perceptual Dialectology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Alexander Maxwell
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Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Linguists have long been aware that the ubiquitous distinction between “languages” and “dialects” has more to do with political and social forces, typically nationalism, than with objective linguistic distance.1 This article, an exercise in the history of (linguistic) science, examines political and social factors operating on other levels of linguistic classification than the “language-dialect” dichotomy. Nationalism and linguistic thought are mutually interactive throughout a linguistic classification system: political and social history not only affects a list of “languages,” but also a list of “dialects.”

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44 Ľubomir Ďurovič dated the term Slovák to 1485; Theodore Locher suggests it may have originally been a term of abuse. Bernoláks 1825 dictionary gives the word Slowák two main meanings: “ein Slave, Slavack, tóth” and “ein Slavonier (schlavonier), Tóth, Horvath.” In other words, Bernolák includes ethnonyms whose modern meanings include “Slovak,” “Slav,” “Slavonian,” and “Croat,” but no unambiguously “Slovak” meaning. The terms Slovak and Slav, as well as Slovene, and Slavonian, share the same root; their common origin is clear in the modern Slovak terms slovenský, slovanský, slovinský, and slavonský. The distinction between them remained ambiguous until the 1840s. In 1845, for example, Michael Godra quoted a text claiming that “Slavjaňi or slovaňja and Slavjanki or Slovanki [live] from the wide sea to Kamchatka, Slavonci and Slavonki in Slavonia, Slovenci and Slovenki in the area around Triglav [i.e., in Slovenia], Slováci and Slováčki from the Tatras to the Danube,” and then disagreed, proclaiming that “near Triglav live the slovenci and slovenki, but they normally call themselves slovinci and slovinki, and in the Tatras … live Slováci and slovenki” Jozef Ambruš, after, discussing difficulties of this sort, correctly concluded that scholars “have not paid enough attention to the coherent, expressions slávsky, slovenský, Slovensko, SlovenčinaGoogle Scholar See Durovid, , “Slovak,” 211Google Scholar; Locher, , Nationale Differenzierung und Integrierung, 86Google Scholar; Anton, Bernolák, Slowár Slowenská= Česko= Laťinsko= Německo= Uherski seu Lexicon Slavicum [Slovak-Czech-Latin-German-Hungarian dictionary], vol. 4 (Buda, 1825), 3010Google Scholar; Michal, Godra, “Voňavje Ďordínki” [Fragrant Georgina], Orol tatranský [Eagle of the Tatras] 1, no. 12 (1845): 95Google Scholar; Jozef, Ambruš, “Die Slawische Idee bei Ján Hollý,” in Ľudovít Štúr und die Slawische Wechselseitigkeit, ed. Ľudovit, Holotik (Bratislava, 1969).Google Scholar

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46 James Ramon, Felak, “At the Price of the Republic”: Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1929–1938 (Pittsburgh, 1994), 5Google Scholar; the final quotation is from Peter, Brock, The Slovak National Awakening: An Essay in the Intellectual History of East Central Europe (Toronto, 1976), 13.Google Scholar

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54 Hodža reproduced an example of Calvinist “Hungaro-Polish-Slavic” in his Epigenes Slovenicus. Its conventions were used mostly in Calvinist liturgical works printed in Debrecen; its orthography shows a marked Hungarian influence, notably {cs} in place of /tJ/ {č}, {s} for /J/ {ˇ} and {sz} for /s/ {s}.Google ScholarHodža, M. M., Epigenes Slovenicus [Slavic descendants] (Levoča, 1847), 63.Google ScholarA sample text in a similar orthography, described as “Eastern Slovak,” is available in Krajčovič and Žigo, Príručka k dejinám spisovnej slovenčiny, 102–3.Google Scholar

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60 Štúřs original text reads, “Mi slováci sme kmen a jako kmen máme vlastnuo nárečja, ktoruo je od českjeho odchodnuo a rozdjelno.” Cambel gave this as “Slováci sú osobitný národ a ako národ majú svoj vlastný jazyk (v dobovej terminólogii „Kmen” a „nárečie”).”Google Scholar Compare Štúr, , “Nárečja slovenskuo,” 51Google Scholar; and Cambel, , ed., Dejiny Slovenska, 721.Google Scholar

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66 Quoted from Pražák, “Slovenská otázka v dobé J. M. Hurbana” [The Slovak Question in the age of J. M. Hurban],530/202. Hurban's motives are the subject of debate among Slovak historians. Pražák interpreted it as Czechoslovakism, Francisci as a demonstration against Kálmán Tisza, Skultéty as the result of “anger,” and Zechenter as a gambit for Czech support in the struggle against Magyarization. Most of these explanations are compatible with each other.Google Scholar On Slovak attitudes toward Hurban's transformation, see Samuel, Osudský, Filosofia Štúrovov [The philosophy of the Sturites], vol. 2, Hurbanova Filosofia [Hurban's philosophy] (Myjava, 1928), 320.Google Scholar

67 Štúr was unable to find a Slovak publisher and felt his work would reach a wideaudience in a more established script. Note that even when Štúr discussed Slovak folk songs, he did not use his version of Slovak spelling; his quotations followed Hattala's standardization. While Hattala based his work on Štúřs codification, it would be a mistake to equate Hattala's Slovak with Śtúřs Slovak.Google ScholarZlatko, Klátík, Štúrovci a Juhoslovania [The Štúrítes and South Slavia] (Bratislava, 1965),34Google Scholar; Ľudevit, Štúr, O národních pisních a pověstech piemen slovanských [On the national songs and legends of the Slavic tribes] (Prague, 1852), 24.Google Scholar

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69 The biggest problem was Štúrs use of {j} for diphthongs. Bibličtina, Bernolákovcina, modern Czech, and modern Slovak all have a rule allowing the palatalized consonants {ď} {ň} {ť} to be written as unpalatalized {d} {n} {t} when followed by the letter {i}; {i] self-evidently palatalizes the preceding consonant. Štúřs preference for {j} thus led to great confusion over the palatalization of consonants. Štúr himself spelled the modern Slovak nie (no, not) as both nje and ňje, though Štúr was consistent about the {ď} in ďjela.Google Scholar

70 No original titles appeared in Bernolákovčina after 1851, but Bernolákovčina catechisms were reprinted as late as 1867. Parishioner demand, apparently, did not always follow the guidance of Catholic leadersGoogle Scholar. See Kotvan, Bibliografia Bernolákovcov.Google Scholar

71 Ammon parenthetically defines such authorities as “teachers, administrative superiors.” However, the term applies just as well to journalists, literati, and similar cultural figures. Ammon, “Language-Variety/Standard Variety-Dialect,” 328–29.Google Scholar

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