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The paper looks at the phonological development of the Záhorie dialects in the context of historical phonological processes in Slovak and Czech. The Záhorie dialect group is the westernmost dialect of Slovak and many of its traits show a similarity with Czech. Old residual traits are either shared by Czech and West Slovak dialects (*ort, *olt > rot-, lot; *s’ > š; *dl, *tl) or correspond to Czech dialects (*jь- > je-; length for the acute). On the subject of innovations, which are also important in determining genetic affiliation, the Záhorie dialect shows a similarity with the Czech development as well. It was affected by probably the oldest Czech innovation (*dj > z), which was later neutralised by the restructuring of the morphonological system of alternations in assibilation conditions, i.e. the ď > dz change. The Záhorie dialect was also affect-ed by the Proto-Czech depalatalisations, diphthongisations, and in part by the Old Czech umlaut ä > ě, which is, however, the most consistent for in internal syllables. Some phonological indicators suggest that the *r’ assibilation might have taken place in the Záhorie dialect as well. The most recent change connecting the Záhorie dialect to Czech dialects was the monophthongisation, after which the development of the Záhorie dialect group approaches the Slovak diasystem. The Záhorie dialect there-fore started its development as a dialect of Czech, subsequently gravitating toward the Slovak development, and hence it can with complete justification be considered as a transitional Czech-Slovak dialect. |
