HUNGARIAN DIALECT CLASSIFICATIONS

This paper presents a historical overview of the classification of Hungarian dialects. Ten classification attempts are presented with various conceptual and methodological backgrounds. Simonyi (1889) made a systematic comparison of Hungarian dialects based on phonological variables. The first detail...

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Published in:	Dialectología no. 2024.2024; p. 237
Main Author:	VARGHA, Fruzsina S.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Barcelona Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia 2024
Subjects:	Dialects Hungarian language Language classification Linguistic atlases Quantitative analysis Regional dialects
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Summary:	This paper presents a historical overview of the classification of Hungarian dialects. Ten classification attempts are presented with various conceptual and methodological backgrounds. Simonyi (1889) made a systematic comparison of Hungarian dialects based on phonological variables. The first detailed classification was made by Balassa (1891), based on dialect surveys. His map of dialect areas was republished several times with slight modifications; in its last form (Kálmán 1966), it still appears in Hungarian textbooks. Laziczius (1936) took a structuralist approach that was further developed by Imre (1971) who also applied quantitative methods for the identification of dialect types. Juhász's (2001) classification, distinguishing ten dialect regions, and synthetising and refining previous work is nowadays the accepted classification of Hungarian dialects. These dialect regions were later partially confirmed by automatic classifications based on computerised ethnographic atlas data (Borsos 2011, 2017) and dialectometric studies of integrated computerised Hungarian dialect atlases (Vargha-Kocsis 2016, Vargha 2017).
ISSN:	2013-2247 2013-2247
DOI:	10.1344/Dialectologia2024.2024.8