Croat of Burgenland

The Croatian of Burgenland ( gradišćanskohrvatski jezik ), which belongs to the group of the Slavic languages of the South, is spoken in the Burgenland (in Croatian Gradišće ) Austrian and is officially recognized like vernacular language of the Croatian community residing at the Burgenland. According to the official statistics of 2001, he is spoken by 19.412 speakers in Burgenland. One also finds minorities which speak it with Vienna and with Graz.

One with the practice to indicate the Croatian minorities of Western Hungary, Slovakia of south-west as well as south of the Czech Republic as being Croats of Burgenland. The latter employ the same language that in Burgenland and are also historically and culturally very related to the Croats of Austria. The full number of speakers in all the quoted countries is estimated at approximately 70.000, according to the representatives of the Austrian Croatian community.

History

Croatian of Burgenland was established following the exodus of Croatian populations due to the wars carried out at the time by the Turks in Balkans. The current Croatia was located on the border of the Ottoman Empire; also the Croats settled in the west of the Hungary of the time, which corresponds today roughly speaking to the geographical area where Croatian of Burgenland is spoken. The three dialectal groups of Croatian, namely the Čakave (of the Northern coast of the Dalmatie), the Štokave and the Kajkave (of the interior of Dalmatie), were already represented. Čakaves trained the majority of the immigrants.

When the Croatian language was standardized at the 19th century, one had especially recourse as bases work with the Štokave dialect, majority; moreover, Croatian expatriates was not consulted at the time of the aforesaid the reform. In fact, Croatian of Burgenland is rather distinct from current Croatian today, since having a a little different dialectal base. Only the Alphabet employed today in Croatian language was taken again by the community of Burgenland.

Croatian of Burgenland however is not recognized as being a Slavic language with share. One often regards it as being a dialectal alternative of Croatian, without more. The massive loan of Croatian " principal" with the Serb language also the difference between Croatian of Burgenland and its cousin dug.

Written language

Croatian of Burgenland is based mainly on the local dialects čakaves, even if it contains only some loans with the vernacular language of Burgenland. The surrounding Germanic dialects also left a considerable print on the vocabulary.

In the south of Burgenland, the Croats of Burgenland rather speak Štokave, more in north Kajkave close to the Hungarian border, and finally Čakave towards Vienna.

Place name

Here a list of names of cities in local language and Croatian of Burgenland:

Austria :

Bijelo Selo (in German: Pama)
Novo Selo (Neudorf)
Pandrof (Parndorf)
Uzlop (Oslip)
Trajštof (Trausdorf)
Cindrof (Siegendorf)
Klimpuh (Klingenbach)
Cogrštof (Zagersdorf)
Vorištan (Hornstein)
Štikapron (Steinbrunn)
Celindof (Zillingtal)
Vulkapodrštof (Wulkaprodersdorf)
Otava (Antau)
Rasporak (Draßburg)
Pajngrt (Baumgarten)
Filež (Nikitsch)
Veliki Borištof (Großwarasdorf)
Frakanava - Dolnja Pulja (Frankenau - Unterpullendorf)
Kalištrof (Kaisersdorf)
Bajngrob (Weingraben)
Bandol (Weiden EIB Rechnitz)
Stinjaki (Stinatz)
Čajta (Schachendorf)
Čemba (Schandorf)
Pinkovac (Güttenbach)
Nova Gora (Neuberg)
Veršvar (Rotenturm)
Beč (Wien, Vienna)

Hungary :

Prisiki (in Hungarian: Peresznye)
Koljnof (Kópháza)
Gornji Čatar (Felsöcsatár)
Hrvatske Šice (Horvátlövö)
Hrvatski Židan (Horvátzsidany)
Narda
Plajgora (Olmond)

Slovakia :

Čunovo
Devinsko Novo Selo (in Slovak: Devinska Nova Ves)
Hrvatski Grob (Chorvátsky Grob)
Hrvatski Jandrof (Jarovce)
Rosvar (Rusovce)

Czech Republic :

Frelištof (in Czech: Jevišovka)
Dobro Polje (Dobré Pole)
Nova Prerava (Novy Prerov)

External bonds

Znanstveni institute
Hrvatski Kulturni
Burgenländisch-kroatisches Zentrum (Gradišćansko-hrvatski Centar) in Vienna

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